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Integral correlation measures for multiparticle physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We report on a considerable improvement in the technique of measuring multiparticle correlations via integrals over correlation functions. A modification of measures used in the characterization of chaotic dynamical sytems permits fast and flexible calculation of factorial moments and cumulants as well as their differential versions. Higher order correlation integral measurements even of large multiplicity events such as encountered in heavy ion collisons are now feasible. The change from ``ordinary'' to ``factorial'' powers may have important consequences in other fields such as the study of galaxy correlations and Bose-Einstein interferometry.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9304208,
  title  = {Integral correlation measures for multiparticle physics},
  author = {H. C. Eggers and P. Lipa and P. Carruthers and B. Buschbeck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9304208},
  year   = {2009}
}

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23 pages, 6 tar-compressed uuencoded PostScript figures appended, preprint TPR-92-47