Scaled-factorial-moment analysis of 200 A -GeV sulfur+gold interactions

• Published in: Physical review letters 1990-07, Vol.65 (4), p.412-415
• Main Authors: Adamovich, M. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Alexandrov, Y. A., Ameeva, Z. V., Andreeva, N. P., Anzon, Z. V., Arora, R., Badyal, S. K., Bhalla, K. B., Bhasin, A., Bhatia, V. S., Bubnov, V. I., Burnett, T. H., Cai, X., Chasnikov, I. Y., Chernova, L. P., Chernyavski, M. M., Dressel, B., Eligbaeva, G. Z., Eremenko, L. E., Friedlander, E. M., Gadzhieva, S. I., Gaitinov, A. S., Ganssauge, E. R., Garpman, S., Gerassimov, S. G., Gill, A., Grote, J. G., Gulamov, K. G., Gulyamov, U. G., Gupta, V. K., Hackel, S., Heckman, H. H., Haung, H., Judek, B., Kachroo, S., Kadyrov, F. G., Kalyachkina, G. S., Kanygina, E. K., Kaul, G. L., Kaur, M., Kharlamov, S. P., Koss, T., Kumar, V., Lal, P., Larionova, V. G., Lindstrom, P. J., Liu, L. S., Lokanathan, S., Lord, J. J., Lukicheva, N. S., Luo, S. B., Maslennikova, N. V., Mangotra, L. K., Mittra, I. S., Mookerjee, S., Mueller, C., Nasyrov, S. H., Navotny, V. S., Orlova, G. I., Otterlund, I., Peresadko, N. G., Persson, S., Petrov, N. V., Qian, W. Y., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Rao, N. K., Rhee, J. T., Salmanova, N. A., Schultz, W., Shakhova, C. I., Shukla, V. S., Singh, B., Skelding, D., Soderstrom, K., Stenlund, E., Strausz, S. C., Sun, J. F., Svechnikova, L. N., Tretyakova, M. I., Wang, H. Q., Weng, Z. Q., Wilkes, R. J., Xu, G. F., Zhang, D. H., Zheng, P. Y., Zhou, D. C., Zhou, J. C.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 651420 - Nuclear Properties & Reactions, A=20-38, Experimental; 651920 - Nuclear Properties & Reactions, A=190-219, Experimental; CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS; DATA; DATA ANALYSIS; ELEMENTS; ENERGY RANGE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GOLD; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; INFORMATION; METALS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONMETALS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUMERICAL DATA; SULFUR; TEV RANGE; TRANSITION ELEMENTS
• ISSN: 0031-9007; 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.412

S+Au interactions at 200{ital A} GeV were observed using emulsion chambers, permitting measurement of pseudorapidities in the central region with precision {similar to}0.01 unit. Scaled-factorial-moment analyses are extended to bin sizes smaller than those accessible to other fixed-target experimental techniques. For a sample of 151 central collisions, moments are calculated using both horizontal'' and vertical'' analysis techniques. While the moments are found to rise (in a log-log plot) with decreasing pseudorapidity bin size {delta}{eta}, their slopes roll off to approximately zero for {delta}{eta}{lt}0.1.