Forward-backward multiplicity correlations and leakage parameter behaviour in asymmetric high-energy collisions

Abstract

Forward–backward multiplicity correlations are studied in asymmetric collisions in the framework of the weighted superposition mechanism of different classes of events. New parameters for the asymmetric clan distribution and for the particle leakage from clans in one hemisphere to the opposite one are introduced to effectively classify different classes of collisions. This tool should be used to explore forward–backward multiplicity correlations in AB and pA collisions in present and future experiments at RHIC and LHC.