Centrality in hadron collisions

Abstract

In hadron interactions at the LHC energies, the reflective scattering mode starts to play a role which is expected to be even a more significant beyond the energies of the LHC. This new but still arguable phenomenon implies a peripheral dependence of the inelastic probability distribution in the impact parameter space and asymptotically evolving to the black ring. As a consequence, the straightforward extension to hadrons of the centrality definition adopted for nuclei needs to be modified.

9 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1811.12822, added discussion and references

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