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Report number	E2-2001-41 ; JINR-E2-2001-41
Title	Z-Scaling, Fractality and Principle of Relativity in Relativistic Collisions of Hadrons and Nuclei
Author(s)	Zborovský, I ; Tokarev, M V ; Panebratsev, Yu A ; Skoro, G P
Affiliation	(Laboratory of High Energies, Dubna) ; (Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rez, Czech Republic) ; (Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Institute of Nuclear Sciences "Vinca", Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
Publication	2001
Imprint	15 Mar 2001
Number of pages	19
Presented at	15th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Stony Brook, NY, USA, 15 - 20 Jan 2001
Subject category	General Theoretical Physics
Abstract	The formation length of particles produced in the relativistic collisions of hadrons and nuclei has relevance to the fundamental principles of physics at small interaction distances. The relation is phenomenologically expressed by a z-scaling observed in the differential cross sections for the inclusive reactions at high energies. The scaling variable reflects the length of the elementary particle trajectories in terms of a fractal measure. Characterizing the fractal approach, we demonstrate the relativity principle in space-time with broken isotropy. We derive relativistic transformations accounting for the asymmetry of space-time induced in the interactions by various parton fractal structures of hadrons and nuclei.
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