Lévy-statistics for partially equilibrated systems

• Authors: Athanasios Petridis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We examine deviations from Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics for a certain class of partially equilibrated systems of finite size. We find that such systems are characterized by the Lévy distribution whose non-extensivity parameter is related to the number of internally equilibrated subsystems and to correlations among them. This concept is applicable to relativistic heavy ion collisions.

Keywords

EN

Partial-equilibrium; nonextensive statistics; Lévy distribution; 05.70.Ln; 05.40.Fb

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 363-368

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2006

online

1 - 9 - 2006

Contributors

author

Athanasios Petridis

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, 50311, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-006-0019-9