Statistical distributions in the thermal model

An attempt is made to use the thermal model to determine statistical particle number fluctuations in the presence of exact conservation laws. A basis is provided, which will be useful to extend the range of applications of the thermal model with both a large number of conserved charges as well as quantum statistics. The central limit theorem and its related expansions provide a flexible mathematical tool for calculation of statistical fluctuations, and allows for application of the canonical ensemble to high energy particle collision data. A first analysis of the NA49 CC data suggests that statistical multiplicity fluctuations can be understood within the statistical hadronization model.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Physics

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Hauer, Michael

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Cleymans, Jean

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11672

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11672