Random Matrix Theory and Analysis of Nucleus-Nucleus Collision at High Energies

Abstract

We propose a novel method for analysis of experimental data obtained at relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. The method, based on the ideas of Random Matrix Theory, is applied to detect systematic errors that occur at measurements of momentum distributions of emitted particles. The unfolded momentum distribution is well described by the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble of random matrices, when the uncertainty in the momentum distribution is maximal. The method is free from unwanted background contributions.

9 pages, 4 figures,XVII International Baldin Seminar, Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics