Study of Compound Particle Production in ²⁸Si and ³²S-Emulsion Collisions at 14.6 and 200 AGeV

Abstract

This work displays a study of the compound multiplicity characteristics of 14.6 and 200 AGeV/c 28 Si and 32 S-emulsion interactions, where the number of shower and grey particles taken together is termed as compound multiplicity, N c . It has been found that the average compound multiplicity depends on the mass number of the projectile, A p , and energy of the projectile. A positive linear dependence of the compound multiplicity on the black, grey, heavy and shower particles has been found. Also the scaling of compound multiplicity distributions produced in these interactions has been studied in order to check the validity of KNO-scaling. A simplified universal function has been used to represent the experimental data. The experimental results have been compared with those obtained by analyzing events generated with the computer code FRITIOF based on Lund Monte Carlo model.