Signature of intermittency during emission of target associated particles in heavy ion collisions at SPS energies

Abstract

A study of intermittent type of fluctuations of target fragments produced in the interactions of ³²S-AgBr at 200 AGeV using the method of scaled factorial moments, F_q has been performed. An intermittent behaviour is observed for fast and slow target fragments for the experimental data in terms of new scaled variable X(Cosθ) suggested by Bialas and Gazdzicki. The variations of the anomalous fractal dimensions, d_q, and the generalized dimensions, D_q, with the order of the moments, q, are investigated with the help of F_q, moments. The anomalous dimension, d_q increases linearly with the order of moments, q, suggesting the multifractality with the production mechanism of target associated fragments.