This Strange Motion Keeps Appearing Everywhere - Even in High-Energy Collisions

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High-energy particle collisions exhibit Lévy walks, a movement pattern also found in nature, economics, and climate science. ELTE researchers confirmed this using simulations and data from major particle accelerators. Their findings challenge traditional assumptions and connect nuclear physics to broader scientific disciplines.
Credit: Mate Csanad / ELTE Eötvös Loránd University

Particles in high-energy nuclear collisions move in a way that follows a pattern known as Lévy walks, a motion found across many scientific fields.

Named after mathematician Paul Lévy, Lévy walks (or, in some cases, Lévy flights) describe a type of random movement seen in nature and various scientific processes. This pattern appears in diverse phenomena, from how predators search for food to economic fluctuations, microbiology, chemical reactions, and even climate dynamics.

Lévy Walks in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

In their latest research, Dániel Kincses, Márton Nagy, and Máté Csanád from ELTE’s Department of Atomic Physics and the Astro- and Particle Physics Programme of Excellence (TKP) have demonstrated that the motion of particles in high-energy nuclear collisions follows this same mathematical framework. Their findings emphasize the broad, interdisciplinary significance of Lévy walks in understanding complex systems.

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