Cluster radiative emission and statistical models

After reviewing some statistical models of multiple production, a cluster radiative emission picture in configuration space is proposed and, with the aid of an extension of the Gottfried model, the rapidity and mass distributions of clusters are determined. They agree with the independent cluster production model of Pokorski and Van Hove. (see CERN preprint TH-1772 (1971). Some connections with the thermodynamical model and some problems about the mass spectra are discussed. (17 refs).