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

The NA35 collaboration Bächler, J. ; Bartke, J. ; Białkowska, H. ; et al.
Z.Phys.C 57 (1993) 541-550, 1993.
Inspire Record 342658 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.14492

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.

13 data tables

Multiplicity distribution analysed in 1D for M = 4.

Multiplicity distribution analysed in 2D for M = 16.

Multiplicity distribution analysed in 3D for M = 64.

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