The Tsallis Distribution at the LHC

Abstract

The Tsallis distribution has been used widely in high energy physics to describe the transverse momnetum distributions of particles. In this note we show that the use of a thermodynamically consistent form of this distribution leads to a description of identified particles with the same values of the temperature $T$ and the parameter $q$.

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, conference 1st International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics ICFP 2012