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On the Dominance of Statistical Fluctuation in the Factorial-Moment Study of Chaos in Low Multiplicity Events of High Energy Collisions

1999/03/03 by Liu Lianshou, Fu Jinghua, Wu Yuanfang
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph

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published as Sci.China 43 (2000) 1215-1223 · 16 pages in Latex, 4 figures in 4 separate PS files

arxiv created 1999/03/03 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

It is shown using Monte Carlo simulation that for low multiplicity events the single-event factorial moments are saturated by the statistical fluctuations. The diverse of the event-space moments Cp,q of single-event moments with the diminishing of phase space scale, called ``erraticity'', observed in experiment can readily be reproduced by a flat probability distribution with only statistical fluctuations and therefore does not indicate the existence of chaos as suggested. The possibility of studying chaos in high multiplicity events using erraticity analysis is discussed.

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