Multiplicity fluctuations and percolation of strings in hadron-hadron and nucleus-nucleus collisions

Abstract

We argue that recent NA49 results on multiparticle distributions and fluctuations, as a function of the number of participant nucleons, suggest that percolation plays an important role in particle production at high densities.

11 pages, 5 eps figures, latex

References in corpus (4)

• Report from NA49
• Universality of the transverse momentum distributions in the framework of percolation of strings
• Multiplicity fluctuations in the string clustering approach
• Density saturation and the decrease of the normalised width of the multiplicity distribution in high energy pp collisions

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• Centrality and system size dependence of multiplicity fluctuations in nuclear collisions at 158 AGeV