Elsevier

Nuclear Physics B

Volume 308, Issue 4, 24 October 1988, Pages 857-867
Nuclear Physics B

The physics of hadrons
Intermittency in multiparticle production at high energy

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Abstract

We present predictions of random cascading models for multiparticle production at high energy. Standard and correlated factorial moments in rapidity are shown to provide stringent tests of the intermittency patterns characteristic of random cascades. Using the central limit theorem we show how to test directly for the existence of a cascading process. Finally, we discuss how to take into account statistical corrections.

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    The divergence of the correlation length near the critical point will lead to the critical opalescence and scaling invariant, which means that the systems are self-similar when the resolution changes. One thus expects that particles from the freeze-out hyper-surface close to the critical point have multi-particle fractal structure in the momentum space [58–62]. Experimentally, intermittency analysis has been proposed to probe the self-similarity and density fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions.

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This research has been supported in part by the CPBP Grants No. 01.03 and 01.09.

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Laboratoire de l'Institut de Recherche Fondamentale du Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique.

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