Simple Power-Law Model for generating correlated particles

TL;DR

This paper introduces a simple Monte Carlo model with power-law multi-particle correlations in transverse momentum space to study intermittency and the critical point in heavy-ion collisions.

Contribution

It presents a phenomenological model to analyze the sensitivity of intermittency to power-law correlations amid detector effects.

Findings

Model effectively simulates power-law correlated particles in transverse momentum space.

Provides a tool to assess the impact of detector effects on intermittency analysis.

Aids in searching for the critical point of strongly interacting matter.

Abstract

A search for the critical point of the strongly interacting matter by studying power-law fluctuations within the framework of intermittency is ongoing. In particular, experimental data on proton and pion production in heavy-ion collisions are analyzed in transverse momentum space. In this regard, a simple Monte Carlo model with an explicit power-law multi-particle correlation in transverse momentum space is introduced. The model is intended as a phenomenological tool to study the sensitivity of intermittency analyses to power-law correlated particles in the presence of various detector effects.