ON THE INTERMITTENCY AND CORRELATION INTEGRAL OF MULTIPARTICLE FINAL-STATES IN HIGH-ENERGY COLLISIONS

It is shown by both theoretical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation th at using the correlation integral instead of factorial moments in the investigation of intermittency phenomena will change the anomalous sca ling behavior for decreasing rapidity bins. It is pointed out that the correlation integral and factorial moments probably reflect different physical aspects. In order to eliminate the artificial factor in bin- division, a method of randomly moving starting point of bin-division i n the investigation of factorial moments is proposed. It is also shown that the spike events have important contribution to the intermittenc y indices.