KNO Scaling in the Neutral Pion Multiplicity Distributions for pi^{-}-proton interactions at 40 and 250 GeV/c

Abstract

We analysed the binomial multiplicity moments of the neutral pions, using an extension of the generating functional technique for detection losses. We applied this model-independent method to the individual gamma-weights of 10000 events of pi^{-}-proton interactions at 40 GeV/c. We compared the obtained results to those of 250 GeV/c. We used the FRITIOF and a shifted KW distribution to describe the data.