Investigation of the distribution of secondary particles associated with high-energy hadron collisions by means of the straight-line path approximation

In the framework of standard field-theoretical models a study is made of the problem of multiple production of “sof” mesons in collisions of two high-energy nucleons. The straight-line path approximation yields a Poisson distribution for the number of secondary particles; an investigation is also made of the dependence of the average multiplicity, i.e., the number of secondary particles created, on the restrictions on the momenta of the secondary particles.