MULTIHADRON PRODUCTION IN HIGH-ENERGY INTERACTIONS AND INTERMITTENCY

Nonstatistical multiplicity fluctuations in narrow pseudorapidity inte rvals have been studied in the pionization process of pi--Ag/Br and p- Ag/Br interaction data at 350 GeV/c and 400 GeV/c, respectively, in te rms of scaled factorial moments. An intermittent pattern of fluctuatio ns is evident for pionization processes in both cases. An investigatio n of anomalous fractal dimensions suggests a cascading mechanism for t he multihadron production process. A further analysis of the data in t erms of a scaling law for a different order of the moments has been do ne. The results support the proposed scaling behavior. We have also pr obed the emission process of the medium energy target-fragmented proto ns with the same tool. Interestingly, this study reveals similar behav ior.