Scaling of Charged particle multiplicity in 28Si-nucleus interactions

Abstract

Multiplicity distributions and their scaling behaviour for various types of secondary charged particles produced in 28Si-nucleus collisions at 4.5A and 14.5A GeV are investigated. The validity of KNO scaling and its generalized form has been tested by studying the parameters, Sn (z ) and Sn ( Z') The data obey KNO-G scaling for lower multiplicity events and departs from the predictions at the tails of the distributions.