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Subject(s)

• Hadrons [Browse]
• Phenomenological theory (Physics) [Browse]

Related name

• Ploszajczak, M. (Marek) [Browse]

Series

• World Scientific lecture notes in physics ; v. 65. [More in this series]
• World Scientific lecture notes in physics ; v. 65 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-362) and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Introduction
• Ch. 2. Central Limit Theorem and Stable Laws
• 2.1. Central limit theorem for broad distributions
• 2.2. Stable laws for sum of uncorrelated variables
• 2.3. Limit theorems for more complicated combinations of uncorrelated variables
• 2.4. Two examples of physical applications
• Ch. 3. Stable Laws for Correlated Variables
• 3.1. Weakly and strongly correlated random variables
• 3.2. Dyson's hierarchical model
• 3.3. The renormalization group
• 3.4. Self-similar probability distributions
• 3.5. Critical systems
• Ch. 4. Diffusion Problems
• 4.1. Brownian motion
• 4.2. Random walks
• 4.3. Random walks with memory
• 4.4. Random walk as a critical phenomenon
• 4.5. Random walk as a self-similar process
• Ch. 5. Poisson-Transform Distributions
• 5.1. The class of poisson transforms
• 5.2. Pascal distribution
• 5.3. Stacy distribution
• 5.4. Other examples of integral transforms --
• 5.5. KNO scaling limit
• Ch. 6. Featuring the Correlations
• 6.1. Moments and their generating function
• 6.2. Some tools specific to the generating functions
• 6.3. One example: the poisson distribution
• 6.5. Composite distributions
• 6.6. More about the pascal distribution
• Ch. 7. Exclusive and Inclusive Densities
• 7.1. Generalities and variables
• 7.2. Cumulant correlation functions
• 7.3. Scaled factorial moments
• 7.4. Scaled factorial correlators and bin-split moments
• 7.5. Scaled factorial cumulants
• 7.6. Linked structure of the correlations
• 7.7. Erraticity concept
• Ch. 8. Bose-Einstein Correlations in Nuclear and Particle Physics
• 8.1. Basic features of bose-einstein quantum statistical correlations
• 8.2. Parametrization of the HBT data
• 8.3. Bose-Einstein interference in models
• 8.4. Idealized picture of independent particle production
• 8.5. Bose-Einstein correlations in high-energy collisions --
• Ch. 9. Random Multiplicative Cascades
• 9.1. Multiplicative cascade models
• 9.2. Multifractals and intermittency
• 9.3. Correlations in random cascading
• 9.4. Non-ideal random cascades: the cut-off effect
• 9.5. QCD cascade
• Ch. 10. Random Cascades with Short-Scale Dissipation
• 10.1. Basic features of the fragmentation-inactivation binary model
• 10.2. Various approaches to the fragmentation-inactivation binary model
• 10.3. Moment analysis of the fragmentation-inactivation binary equations
• 10.4. Binary cascading with scale-dependent inactivation mechanism
• 10.5. Perturbative quantum chromodynamics including inactivation mechanism
• 10.6. Phenomenology of the multiplicity distributions in e[superscript +]e[superscript -] reactions
• Ch. 11. Fluctuations of the Order Parameter
• 11.1. Order parameter fluctuations in self-similar systems
• 11.2. Example of the non-critical model --
• 11.3. Mean-field critical model: the Landau-Ginzburg model
• 11.4. Example of the critical model: the potts model
• 11.5. Reversible aggregation: example of the percolation model
• 11.6. Irreversible aggregation: example of the smoluchowski kinetic model
• 11.7. Off-equilibrium fragmentation
• Ch. 12. Universal Fluctuations in Nuclear and Particle Physics
• 12.1. Phenomenology of high energy collisions in the scaled factorial moments analysis
• 12.2. [Delta]-scaling in [actual symbol not reproducible] collisions?
• 12.3. Universal fluctuations in excited nuclear matter
• Ch. 13. Final Remarks.

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ISBN

• 9810248989
• 9810249233 (pbk.)

OCLC

50743819

RCP

C - S

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