THE pT-SPECTRA OF SOME NON-PION SECONDARIES IN HIGH ENERGY NN TO NA/AA COLLISIONS AND THE COMBINATIONAL APPROACH

Abstract

In continuation of our perusal of the studies on transverse momentum spectra for the main varieties of secondaries from a consistent and comprehensive phenomenological approach, we propose to take up here — after a successful completion of reporting in detail the results (Ref. 4 in the text) on our analyses of the pT-spectra of pions — the studies specially on production of kaons, protons and antiprotons in several proton-induced and nucleus-involved collisions at high energies. The measured data on inclusive cross-sections of kaons, protons and antiprotons from the various published sources have here been assorted first. Next, data on the pT-spectra of the specific secondaries produced in PP and [Formula: see text] reactions have been scanned and analyzed with the help of Hagedorn's model (HM). Thereafter a connector, named here the combinational approach (CA), has been constructed and used to analyze the data on pT-spectra of some major category of non-pion secondaries produced in nucleus–nucleus (AA/AB) collisions at high energies. And these exercises have, finally, led to the modestly successful interpretations of a wide band of data with the revelation of some insightful physical aspects of high energy interactions. The limitations of the approach have also been precisely pointed out in the end.