On the Distribution of Secondaries at High Energies

Abstract

We show within a geometrical model developed in earlier papers that multiplicity distributions are cut off at large multiplicities. The position and motion of the cut-off point is related to geometrical- and KNO scaling and their violation, in particular by the rise of the ratio ${\sigma }_{el}/{\sigma }_t.$ At the LHC energies a change of the regime, connected with the transition from shadowing to antishadowing is expected.

Small errors are corrected; 7 pages, 1 figure