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Parameter space stability of multiple soft interactions

Rahul Kumar Thakur·Bhupendra Nath Tiwari·Rahul Nigam
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We study the fluctuation theory analysis of multiple soft interactions that are used to design SIBYLL 2.1 and related cosmic ray event generators. We examine fluctuation stabilities of Lund string fragmentation involving quark-antiquark and diquark-antidiquark pairs. Using the primordial transverse momentum hadron-hadron pairs, we find that the resulting Gaussian distribution yields an ill-defined ensemble under fluctuation of the model parameters of parent quark and diquarks. Further, we investigate the nature of multiple soft interactions through Pomeron-Reggeon fluctuations at various energy scales. We show that there are both stable and unstable regions under fluctuations of the Reggeon and Pomeron densities and all initial energy scales. The optimal stability zone is achieved at the Reggeon and Pomeron densities as predicted by GRV model. For hadron-hadron collisions, the limiting Gaussian profile as a function of the impact parameters of soft interactions for proton-proton collisions corresponds to an indeterminate statistical basis. Subsequently, we add higher order corrections in the Regge trajectory of constituent hadrons that play an important role in determining the shape of a proton or meson profile function in the realm of minijet model. We also discuss the accelerated nucleons with jerks and soft profile functions at off-shell-conditions. In addition, we illustrate the wall of stability/instability for multiple soft interactions by considering energy dependent soft contributions to scattering cross section as the model embedding. Qualitative discussions are provided at physical energy scales ranging from 1 GeV to 1800 GeV. This includes the analysis of CDF, P238, UA5 and ZEUS experiments.

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Rahul Kumar Thakur, Bhupendra Nath Tiwari, Rahul Nigam. 2019-12-11. Parameter space stability of multiple soft interactions. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2020.121978

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