MULTIFRACTALITY IN HIGH-ENERGY COLLISIONS

With increasing energy of nuclear collisions, several statistical dist ributions of produced particles show changes in shape. This also conce rns the scaling indices which characterize multifractality in the obse rved particle density distributions. In the present contribution, the self-similar processes governing that multifractality are described in more detail. It is shown especially that the corresponding extended f undamental equation reproduces, with very good accuracy, the data resu lting from the oxygen beam at 60 and 200 A GeV colliding with the emul sion nuclei. The approximate description of the quantities characteriz ing scaling properties near the quark-gluon phase transition is discus sed too.