Published November 30, 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Intermittency and other correlation phenomena in high energy collisions

  • 1. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik und Astrophysik, Muenchen (Germany, F.R.). Werner-Heisenberg-Inst. fuer Physik
  • 2. Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow (Poland). Inst. for Computer Science

Description

We discuss the phenomenology of multiplicity fluctuations in small phase space cells ('intermittency') in connection with correlation functions and negative binomial fits. Whereas soft collisions show smooth, roughly energy independent short-range rapidity correlations, strong short-range correlations are expected to build up in e+e- annihilation with increasing energy and should become visible at LEP energies. We address the question to what extent present data can be explained by jet models and propose further tests. An anomalous collective effect is observed in nucleus-nucleus collisions which deserves further verification. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Physics Letters, (Section) B
Journal Volume
232
Journal Issue
2
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
271-277
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA