https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00140-w
Regular Article –Theoretical Physics
A look at multiparticle production via modified combinants
1
Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 17551, Singapore
2
Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, A1B 3X7, Canada
3
Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski University, 25-406, Kielce, Poland
4
Department of Fundamental Research, National Centre for Nuclear Research, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
* e-mail: maciej.rybczynski@ujk.edu.pl
Received:
20
December
2019
Accepted:
9
March
2020
Published online:
21
April
2020
As shown recently, one can obtain additional information from the measured charged particle multiplicity distributions, P(N), by investigating the so-called modified combinants, 
, extracted from them. This information is encoded in the observed specific oscillatory behaviour of , which phenomenologically can be described only by some combinations of compound distributions based on the Binomial Distribution. So far this idea has been checked in pp and 
processes (where observed oscillations are spectacularly strong). In this paper we continue observation of multiparticle production from the modified combinants perspective by investigating dependencies of the observed oscillatory patterns on type of colliding particles, their energies and the phase space where they are observed. We also offer some tentative explanation based on different types of compound distributions and stochastic branching processes.
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