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FIZIKA B 13 (2004) 3, 657-664
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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