Intermittent and multifractal behaviors of multiplicity distributions in 800 GeV {ital p}-nucleus interactions

Journal Article · Tue Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1996 · Physical Review, C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.54.2081· OSTI ID:385855

Das, G; Dheer, S; Shivpuri, R K ^[1]; Soni, S K ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 (India)
2. Department of Physics, S.G.T.B. Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 (India)

We use scaled factorial moments (SFM{close_quote}s) to analyze pseudorapidity fluctuations of nonstatistical origin in {ital p}-nucleus interactions at 800 GeV. The SFM{close_quote}s are found to exhibit a power-law dependence on the pseudorapidity interval size. The anomalous dimensions {ital d}{sub {ital q}} have been calculated up to order 5. The fractional dimensions {ital D}{sub {ital q}} have been extracted from the slopes of the multifractal plots. Both the multifractal and intermittency approaches have been found to be complementary to each other. The behavior of {ital D}{sub {ital q}} and {ital d}{sub {ital q}} with order {ital q} indicates a possible self-similar random cascading mechanism for multiparticle production. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}

• OSTI ID: 385855
• Journal Information: Physical Review, C, Journal Name: Physical Review, C Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 54; ISSN PRVCAN; ISSN 0556-2813
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

44 INSTRUMENTATION
INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS
66 PHYSICS
FLUCTUATIONS
GEV RANGE 100-1000
MOMENTS METHOD
MULTIPLICITY
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PARTICLE RAPIDITY
PROTON REACTIONS