Abstract

This paper presents the results of an investigation on the multiplicity dependence of the fluctuation pattern of pions for the entire accelerator energy range from 2.1 to 200 AGeV. The data set for produced pions is divided into four sets depending on the number of shower tracks ns. Analysis is carried out in two-dimensional η–ϕ space with the Hurst exponent to take care of the anisotropy of the phase space. The Hurst exponent is extracted by fitting one-dimensional factorial moment saturation curves to Ochs' saturation formula. The values of the effective fluctuation strength α eff are estimated and multiplicity dependence is studied w.r.t. α eff and the Hurst exponent H. It is highly interesting to observe that both fluctuation strength and degree of anisotropy (characterized by H) depend on pion multiplicity. The multiplicity dependence is more pronounced at lower projectile energy. The results of the study are discussed in detail.

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