FIZIKA B 16 (2007)  3, 159-166

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SIGNATURE OF VOID PROBABILITY SCALING IN 28Si-NUCLEUS COLLISIONS

Sh. AHMADa, A. R. KHANa, A. KAMALa, A. AHMADb, M. ZAFARa
and M. IRFANa
aDepartment of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002 India
bDepartment of Applied Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002 India

Received 3 April 2007;   Accepted 5 December 2007
Online 15 February 2008

Probability of detecting no particles in a limited phase space is investigated by analysing the experimental data on 14.5A GeV/c 28Si-nucleus collisions. The findings are compared with the predictions of HIJING Monte-Carlo model. A scaling behaviour of the void probability is observed which confirms the linked-pair approximation for N-particle cumulant correlation functions. The analysis of the mixed events also indicates that the scaling behaviour observed in the present study is a feature of the experimental data.

PACS numbers: 25.75.-q, 24.60.Ky
UDC 539.1.073, 539.12.17

Keywords: relativistic heavy-ion collisions, fluctuations and correlations, void probability

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