Bedangadas Mohanty for the WA98 Collaboration

“Univ. of Panjab (India), bUniv. of Rajasthan (India), “VECC, Calcutta (India), ‘Univ. of Geneva (Switzerland), eKurchatov (Russia), fJINR, Dubna (Russia), SORNL, Oak Ridge (USA), ‘Univ. of Jammu (India), ‘Univ. of Miinster (Germany), JSUBATECH, Nantes (France), “GSI, Darmstadt (Germany), ‘NIKHEF, Utrecht (The Netherlands), “Univ. of Lund (Sweden), “Univ. of Tsukuba (Japan), “NPI, Rez (Czech Rep.), PKVI, Groningen (The Netherlands), QINS, Warsaw (Poland), ‘MIT, Cambridge (USA), “IOP, Bhubaneswar (India), ‘Univ. of Tennessee (USA) Event-by-event fluctuations in the multiplicities of charged particles and photons at SPS energies are discussed. Fluctuations are studied by controlling the centrality of the reaction and rapidity acceptance of the detectors. Results are also presented on the eventby-event study of correlations between the multiplicity of charged particles and photons to search for DCC-like signals.