INTERMITTENCY IN HADRON-NUCLEUS INTERACTIONS AT 200 GeV/c IN TERMS OF FACTORIAL CORRELATORS

Factorial Correlators (FCs), a tool for the test of “intermittency” in multiparticle production in high energy physics, has not been given much attention, compared to the efforts towards understanding the phenomenon in terms of scaled factorial moments. So far, only hadron-hadron data of NA22 collaboration and nucleus-nucleus data of EMU01 collaboration have been analyzed in terms of FCs. However, the present situation of intermittency study demands thorough exploitation of all the available tools for better understanding of the phenomenon. In this article we present the analysis of particle production data of hadron-nucleus interaction at 200 GeV/c in terms of FCs. The results of the analysis show a consistency with the prediction of α-model for the existence of “intermittency.”