Perturbative and nonperturbative aspects of multiparticle production

Different aspects of strong interaction in particle collisions are studied. A measure on colour-connected parton states is presented. With this measure it is possible to divide the production process into the perturbative part (represented by the QCD cascade) and the soft fragmentation. This is obtained both with respect to multiplicity distributions and momenta distribution of particles. It is also demonstrated how to obtain information on the partonic state with respect to this measure from experiment. This may serve as a useful tool when studying strong interactions in multiparticle production. Parton cascade show nontrivial scaling behaviour in momenta of multiplicity distribution in small rapidity intervals. This has been called intermittency. The connection with multifractals is discussed. It is also demonstrated how this effect will survive fragmentaion. Further we study the production of soft photons inside the space-time picture of Lund string fragmentation. The result indicate that the reported excess of long wavelength photons, if confirmed, has an anomalous origin. (author)