On the Factorial Moment Analysis of High Energy Experimental Data with Non-integer Partition Number

1998/12/11 by Chen Gang, Liu Lianshou, Gao Yanmin
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph

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published as Int.J.Mod.Phys. A14 (1999) 3687-3698 · 18 pages 8 PS figures Record-No: HZPP-9811

arxiv created 1998/12/11 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

It is pointed out that in doing the factorial moment analysis with non-integer partition M of phase space, the influence of the phase-space variation of two- (or more-) particle correlations has to be considered carefully. In this paper this problem is studied and a systematic method is developed to minimize this influence. The efficiency and self-consistency of this method are shown using the data of 250 GeV/c π⁺p and K⁺p collisions from the NA22 experiment as example.

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