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Phys. Rev. C 72, 044903 (2005) [4 pages]

Multiplicity fluctuations and percolation of strings in hadron-hadron and nucleus-nucleus collisions

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Pedro Brogueira1 and Jorge Dias de Deus1,2
1Department of Physics, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
2CENTRA, Centro Multidisciplinar de Astrofísica, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

Received 14 June 2005; published 19 October 2005

We argue that recent NA49 results on multiparticle distributions and fluctuations, as a function of the number of participant nucleons, suggest that percolation plays an important role in particle production at high densities.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.72.044903
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.72.044903
PACS:
25.75.Nq, 12.38.Mh, 24.85.+p