From QCD-based hard-scattering to nonextensive statistical mechanical descriptions of transverse momentum spectra in high-energy $pp$ and $p\bar{p}$ collisions

Cheuk-Yin Wong, Grzegorz Wilk, Leonardo J. L. Cirto +1

Transverse spectra of both jets and hadrons obtained in high-energy $pp$ and $p\bar{p}$ collisions at central rapidity exhibit power-law behavior of $1/p_T^n$ at high $p_T$. The po…