MULTIPLICITY CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTICLES PRODUCED IN C-12-EMULSION COLLISIONS AT 4.5-A GEV C/

Experimental data on multiplicities and correlations of charged partic les of different types produced in collisions of 4.5 A GeV/c carbon-12 with emulsion are reported and discussed. The data are compared with the results of other experiments on nucleus-nucleus and hadron-nucleus collisions. It is found that the particle production mechanism in nuc leus-nucleus collisions is almost the same as in hadron-nucleus collis ions. It is also observed that the shower particles' multiplicity dist ributions obey a KNO type scaling law, which supports the aforemention ed result.