Criticality, Fractality and Intermittency in Strong Interactions

Abstract

Assuming a second-order phase transition for the hadronization process, we attempt to associate intermittency patterns in high-energy hadronic collisions to fractal structures in configuration space and corresponding intermittency indices to the isothermal critical exponent at the transition temperature. In this approach, the most general multidimensional intermittency pattern, associated to a second-order phase transition of the strongly interacting system, is determined, and its relevance to present and future experiments is discussed.

15 pages + 2 figures (available on request), CERN-TH.6990/93, UA/NPPS-5-93

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