On the multiplicity fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions

M.I. Adamovich,M. M. Aggarwal,R. Arora,Y.A. Alexandrov,K.B. Bhalla,A. Bhasin,V. S. Bhatia,T.H. Burnett,X. Cai,L.P. Chernova,M.M. Chernyavsky,B. Dressel,E. M. Friedländer,S.I. Gadzhieva,E.R. Ganssauge,S. Garpman,S.G. Gerassimov,A. Gill,J. Grote,K.G. Gulamov,U.G. Gulyamov,S. Hackel,H.H. Heckman,B. Judek,S. Kachroo,F.G. Kadyrov,G. L. Kaul,M. Kaur,S.P. Kharlamov,V. Kumar,P. Lal,V.G. Larionova,P.J. Lindstrom,L.S. Liu,S. Lokanathan,J. J. Lord,N.S. Lukicheva,S.B. Luo,L. K. Mangotra,N.V. Maslennikova,I. S. Mittra,S. Mookerjee,C. Mueller,S.H. Nasyrov,V.S. Navotny,G.I. Orlova,I. Otterlund,N.G. Peresadko,S. Persson,N.V. Petrov,W.Y. Qian,R. Raniwala,S. Raniwala,N.K. Rao,J.T. Rhee,N.A. Salmanova,W. Schulz,V.S. Shukla,B Singh,D. Skelding,K. Söderström,E Stenlund,J.F. Sun,L.N. Svechnikova,M.I. Tretyakova,H.Q. Wang,Z.O. Weng,R. J. Wilkes,G. Xu,D.H. Zhang,P.Y. Zheng,D. Zhou,J.C. Zhou

On the multiplicity fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions

1990

Abstract In the present letter we discuss the general features of the multiplicity distributions in relativistic heavy ion collisions. It is shown that from simple statistical considerations it is possible to predict the dependence of the dispersions of multiplicity distributions on the average multiplicities in any given rapidty wwindow. The applicability of the negative binomial distribution to multiplicity distributions from collisions with heavy ions is discussed.

Keywords:

Dispersion (chemistry)
Negative binomial distribution
Particle physics
Multiplicity (mathematics)
Ion
Observable
Physics
Nuclear physics
heavy ion

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