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Scaling of pseudorapidity distributions at c.m. energies up to 0.9 TeV

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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New data are presented on charged particle pseudorapidity distributions for inelastic events produced at c.m. energies\(\sqrt s \)=200 and 900 GeV. The data were obtained at the CERN antiproton-proton Collider operated in a new pulsed mode. The rise of the central density ρ(0) at energies up to\(\sqrt s \)=900 GeV has been studied. A new form of central region scaling is found involving the densityρ n (0) for charged multiplicityn, namely that the scaled central densityρ n (0)/ρ(0) expressed as a function ofz=n/〈n〉 is independent ofs. Scaling in the fragmentation region holds to 10–20%, and the small amount of scalebreaking observed here could be accommodated within the framework suggested by Wdowcyk and Wolfendale to account for both accelerator and cosmic ray data.

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  1. G. J. Alner

    Present address: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK

  2. I. Evangelou, N. Manthos & F. Triantis

    Present address: the University of Ioannina, Greece

  3. C. N. Booth

    Present address: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

  4. J. J. Reidy (Visiting scientist)

    Present address: University of Mississippi, Mississippi, USA

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  1. Physikalisches Institut der Universität, D-5300, Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany

    L. Burow, A. Drees, B. Eckart, A. Eyring, C. Geich-Gimbel, B. Holl, R. Hospes, R. Meinke, W. Pelzer & H. Schmickler

  2. Inter-University Institute for High Energies (ULB-VUB), B-1 C, Brussels, Belgium

    J. Gaudaen, D. P. Johnson, L. Van hamme & G. Wilquet

  3. Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University, CB 3 OHE, Cambridge, UK

    G. J. Alner, R. E. Ansorge, C. N. Booth, R. S. DeWolf, D. J. Munday, J. E. V. Ovens, J. C. Rushbrooke, C. P. Ward, D. R. Ward, C. J. S. Webber & T. O. White

  4. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    I. Evangelou, J. -P. Fabre, N. Manthos, J. J. Reidy (Visiting scientist) & F. Triantis

  5. Institute of Physics, University, S-11346, Stockholm, Sweden

    B. Åsman, P. Carlson, G. Ekspong, C. Fuglesang, K. Jon-And, F. Lotse, C. Walck & N. Yamdagni

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UA5 Collaboration., Alner, G.J., Ansorge, R.E. et al. Scaling of pseudorapidity distributions at c.m. energies up to 0.9 TeV. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 33, 1–6 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01410446

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