EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2016)

The Weighted GMD Model for multiplicity distributions

  • Wang W.Y.,
  • Seah S.,
  • Setianegara J.,
  • Chan A.H.,
  • Oh C.H.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612003004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 120
p. 03004

Abstract

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A new distribution, the Weighted GMD (WGMD) is obtained from the Generalised Multiplicity Distribution (GMD), describing charged-particle multiplicity distributions as the hadronisation products of quark and gluon branching with fluctuations in the initial gluon numbers produced from the collision. The WGMD is shown to describe charged-particle multiplicity distributions in pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and the average initial gluon number is obtained for Poisson distributed gluon multiplicities.