THE CORRELATION INTEGRAL AS PROBE OF MULTIPARTICLE CORRELATIONS

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作者
LIPA, P [1 ]
CARRUTHERS, P [1 ]
EGGERS, HC [1 ]
BUSCHBECK, B [1 ]
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[1] AUSTRIAN ACAD SCI,INST HOCHENERGIEPHYS,A-1050 VIENNA,AUSTRIA
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10.1016/0370-2693(92)91468-O
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We report on a considerable improvement of the usual factorial moment method used in the study of correlations and in particular of intermittency: by means of integrals of the correlation functions over a strip domain, we obtain greater stability and smaller statistical errors. The benefit of using correlation integrals rises with increasing order of the moment and with increasing dimension of the variables. An algorithm for the actual computation of the so-called strip integrals directly from experimental data is explained in detail. Illustrations of the power of the correlation integral method are given in terms of the NA22 spike event, a two-dimensional JETSET calculation and the p-model.
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