FIZIKA B 13 (2004)  3, 657-664

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INTERMITTENCY ANALYSIS OF MULTIPION PRODUCTION PROCESS IN RELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS - EVIDENCE OF NON-THERMAL PHASE TRANSITION

D. GHOSH, A. DEB, K. CHATTOPADHYAY (DUTTA), R. SARKAR, I. DUTTA, P. MANDAL, S. BISWAS and B. BISWAS

Nuclear and Particle Physics Research Center, Physics Department, Jadavpur University, Kolkata - 700032, India

Received 8 August 2003;  Accepted 13 September 2004
Online 7 February 2005

With the help of the scaled factorial moment method, we have studied the interaction of 24Mg-AgBr at the energy 4.5 A GeV. The whole process involves determination of the intermittency index (aq), which ultimately measures the variable lq (lq=(aq+1)/q). The occurrence of a minimum in the variation of lq as a function of q suggests a non-thermal phase transition and different regime of particle production during the hadronisation process.

PACS numbers: 25.75 -q, 24.60 Ky
UDC 539.12.17

Keywords: 24Mg-AgBr interaction, photographic emulsion, intermittency index, non-thermal phase transition

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