Baryonic and electric charge distributions in multiparticle production and quark parton models

It is pointed out that the baryonic charge distribution in multiparticle production may bring valuable information about the mechanism of hadronic collisions at high energies. The CERN ISR data, supplemented by some plausible assumptions, are then used to construct the baryonic and electric charge distributions of final state particles at psub(T) = 0.4 GeV/c. Both the distributions are found similar. Finally, the conjecture, that the same simple relation holds also for overall (i.e. integrated over psub(T)) rapidity distributions of both charges, is qualitatively shown to be compatible with quark-parton models of multiparticle production. (author)