Study of multiparticle spikes in central 4.5A GeV/c C-Cu collisions

An analysis of local fluctuations, or spikes, is performed for charged particles produced in central C-Cu collisions at 4.5 GeV/c/nucleon. The distributions of spike centers and the maximum density distributions are investigated for different narrow pseudorapidity windows to search for multiparticle dynamical correlations. Two peaks over statistical background are observed in the spike-center distributions with the structure similar to that expected from the coherent gluon radiation model and recently found in hadronic interactions. The dynamical contribution to maximum density fluctuations is obtained to be hidden by statistical correlations, although behavior of the distributions shows qualitative agreement with that from the one-dimensional intermittency model. The observed features of the two different approaches, coherent vs, stochastic, to the formation of the local dynamical fluctuations are discussed. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.