Comment on {open_quotes}Intermittency and correlations in 200 GeV/nucleon S+S and S+Au collisions{close_quotes}
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)
The W80 Collaboration [Phys. Rev. C {bold 50}, 1048 (1994)] has presented an analysis of normalized factorial moments (NFM) of multiplicity distributions in central {sup 32}S+S and {sup 32}S+Au collisions at 200 GeV/nucleon. They claim to observe no intermittency signal, as characterized by a variation of the NFM with rapidity interval, beyond that produced by folding the FRITIOF event generator with a detailed model of their detector. In this Comment, it is pointed out that the difference in magnitude between the measured NFM and the detector simulation, which was not considered by WA80, also contains important information which can be used to extract the true NFM. In particular, F{sub 2} is extracted and compared to other experiments. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 496900
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, C, Vol. 55, Issue 5; Other Information: PBD: May 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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