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Multiplicity distributions in small phase-space domains in central nucleus-nucleus collisions

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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Multiplicity distributions of negatively charged particles have been studied in restricted phase space intervals for central S+S, O+Au and S+Au collisions at 200 GeV/nucleon. It is shown that multiplicity distributions are well described by a negative binomial form irrespectively of the size and dimensionality of phase space domain. A clan structure analysis reveals interesting similarities between complex nuclear collisions and a simple partonic shower. The lognormal distribution agrees reasonably well with the multiplicity data in large domains, but fails in the case of small intervals. No universal scaling function was found to describe the shape of multiplicity distributions in phase space intervals of varying size.

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  1. Department of Physics, University, Athens, Greece

    A. D. Panagiotou, A. Petridis & G. Vassileiadis

  2. Sezione di Bari, INFN, Bari, Italy

    E. Nappi & F. Posa

  3. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università, Bari, Italy

    M. Le Vine, E. Nappi & F. Posa

  4. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    S. I. Chase, J. W. Harris, G. Odyniec, H. G. Pugh, G. Rai, L. Teitelbaum & S. Tonse

  5. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    A. D. Panagiotou & J. Pfenning

  6. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Poland

    J. Bartke, E. Gładysz, M. Kowalski, P. Stefański & B. Wosiek

  7. GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

    R. Bock, R. Brockmann, B. Fleischmann, M. Fuchs, G. Paic & A. Sandoval

  8. Fachbereich Physik, Universität, Frankfurt, Germany

    J. Eschke, B. Fleischmann, M. Fuchs, W. Heck, S. Kabana, A. Kühmichel, M. Lahanas, Y. Lee, M. Le Vine, S. Margetis, R. Renfordt, G. Roland, D. Röhrich, H. Rothard, E. Schmidt, I. Schneider, R. Stock, H. Ströbele & S. Wenig

  9. Fakultät für Physik, Freiburg, Germany

    J. Bächler, M. Hoffmann, K. Runge & E. Schmoetten

  10. Fachbereich Physik, Universität, Marburg, Germany

    R. Keidel, A. Piper & F. Pühlhofer

  11. Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany

    I. Derado, V. Eckardt, H. J. Gebauer, W. Rauch, N. Schmitz, P. Seyboth, J. Seyerlein, G. Vesztergombi & B. Wosiek

  12. Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw, Poland

    M. Gaździcki, J. Kosiec & E. Skrzypczak

  13. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Warsaw, Poland

    H. Białkowska

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NA35 Collaboration., Bächler, J., Bartke, J. et al. Multiplicity distributions in small phase-space domains in central nucleus-nucleus collisions. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 57, 541–550 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01561473

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