Abstract
The use of rapidity gaps is proposed as a measure of the spatial pattern of an event. When the event multiplicity is low, the gaps between neighboring particles carry far more information about an event than multiplicity spikes, which may occur very rarely. Two moments of the gap distribution are suggested for characterizing an event. The fluctuations of those moments from event to event are then quantified by an entropy-like measure, which serves to describe erraticity. We use ECOMB to simulate the exclusive rapidity distribution of each event, from which the erraticity measures are calculated. The dependences of those measures on the order q of the moments provide single-parameter characterizations of erraticity.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 014003 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-6 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
Volume | 62 |
Issue number | 1 |
State | Published - Jul 1 2000 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)