Erraticity analysis of multiparticle production - art. no. 074011

Event-to-event fluctuations of the spatial patterns of the final states of high-energy collisions, referred to as erraticity, are studied for the data generated by a soft-interaction model called ECOMB. The moments C-p,C-q do not show simple power-law dependences on the bin size. New measures of err aticity are proposed that generalize the bin-size dependence. The method sh ould be applied not only to the soft production data of NA22 and NA27 to ch eck the dynamical content of ECOMB, but also to other collision processes, such as e(+) e(-) annihilation and heavy-ion collisions.