Rapidity and Pseudorapidity Distributions of theVarious Hadron-Species Produced in High EnergyNuclear Collisions: A Systematic Approach

Goutam Sau, Aparajita Bhattacharya, Subrata Bhattacharyya

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DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2011.211168                

Abstract

With the help of a phenomenological approach outlined in the text in some detail, we have dealt here with the description of the plots on rapidity and pseudorapidity spectra of some hadron-secondaries produced in various nucleus-nucleus interactions at high energies. The agreement between the measured data and the attempted fits are, on the whole, modestly satisfactory excepting a very narrow central region in the vicinity of y = η = 0. At last, hints to how the steps suggested in the main body of the text to proceed with the description of the measured data given in the plots could lead finally to a somewhat systematic methodology have also been made.

Keywords

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, Inclusive Cross-Section, Inclusive Production with Identified Hadrons, Quarks, Gluons, and QCD in Nuclear Reactions

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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