D. Buskulic et al., MEASUREMENTS OF THE CHARGED-PARTICLE MULTIPLICITY DISTRIBUTION IN RESTRICTED RAPIDITY INTERVALS, Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields, 69(1), 1995, pp. 15-25
Charged particle multiplicity distributions have been measured with th
e ALFPH detector in restricted rapidity intervals \Y\ less than or equ
al to 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 along the thrust axis and also without restri
ction on rapidity. The distribution for the full range can be parametr
ized by a log-normal distribution. For smaller windows one finds a mor
e complicated structure, which is understood to arise from perturbativ
e effects. The negative-binomial distribution fails to describe the da
ta both with and without the restriction on rapidity. The JETSET model
is found to describe all aspects of the data while the width predicte
d by HERWIG is in significant disagreement.