Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bunching parameter


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 20:23, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Bunching parameter

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"Bunching Parameter" has several different meetings that come up when you do a literature search. Once parameter is a figure of merit for klystrons. One has to do with the degree to which particle beam bunches are distributed along their direction of travel. And the one in this article has to do with the distribution of particles in an arbitrary phase space. I would argue that none of the three are sufficiently notable to warrant a Wikipedia article at this time. In particular, the subject of this article is primarily sourced to papers by the same two authors, and does not appear to have widespread adoption. PianoDan (talk) 22:41, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 00:48, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge. From my talk page comments: In a recent computational particle physics package, there is a "BunchingParameters" class, but the sources for it point to 5 papers by Chekanov and one paper in which it was applied, with Chekanov also one of the authors. This metric for particle beam fluctuations just hasn't gotten any traction beyond the original authors. I wouldn't be opposed to a merge somewhere, perhaps factorial moment, but as it stands there isn't enough independent reliable sourcing to support an article. It's possible that there could be source support for a broader article on types of bunching parameter measures in physics and electronics, i.e., measures of particle flow deviation from Poisson. But this is not that article. -- 00:22, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. I deprodded this because I found descriptions of a bunching parameter for particle beams going beck to the 1960s.  However, it is now clear that this is not the same measure described by Chekanov & Kuvshinov.  No evidence has been found that the latter has been used by anyone other than the original authors so it therefore lacks notability for a standalone Wikipedia page. SpinningSpark 09:12, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. per above. I was the one that added the prod tag. The concept described in the article is used only by Chekanov. Other uses of 'bunching parameter' in academic literature are referring to other things. - MrOllie (talk) 18:54, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete No notable references are present for the information in the article. Lacks notability. Timetraveller80 (talk) 18:54, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge if there is somewhere that it fits. Gusfriend (talk) 10:55, 2 February 2022 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.