ENERGY-DEPENDENCE OF INTERMITTENCY IN NUCLEAR-REACTIONS AT INTERMEDIATE ENERGIES

Using a hadronic transport model we study the beam energy dependence of intermittency in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions by analysing the reduced scaled factorial moments of pion distributions in both pseudorapidity and kinetic energy. It is found that the anomalous dimension obtained from analysing pion pseudorapidity distributions decreases rapidly as the beam energy increases from about 0.5 to 3.0 GeV/nucleon. On the contrary, the anomalous dimension extracted from analysing pion kinetic energy distributions is almost independent of the beam energy.