Combinatorial Superstatistics for Soft QCD

Abstract

High energy diffraction and soft QCD span exciting final state topologies and fluctuations which have not yet been measured or characterized in a fully exhaustive way. In this work, we go beyond the standard measures and formulate a new framework to generalize rapidity gap counting with emphasis on abstract structure, fiducial observables, experimental limitations and factorizing model dependence. The construction is based on a higher dimensional Bernoulli vector statistics with a combinatorial incidence algebra structure, independent of the underlying field theory. This is the first experimentally feasible framework designed to probe the seemingly arcane sign alternating scattering amplitude cutting rules of style Abramovski-Gribov-Kancheli, rules being of interest in Regge theory, perturbative QCD and even in stringy black hole calculus. As an additional novel show case, we pose, construct and solve a highly related combinatorial stochastic superposition Poisson inverse problem using the Möbius inversion theorem.