Intermittency in 32S+S and 32S+Au collisions at the CERN SPS

Abstract Nonstatistical or “intermittent” fluctuations of charged particle multiplicities have been investigated at the CERN SPS with the WA80 multiplicity array for 32 S+S and 32 S+Au collisions of varying centrality. Within the phase space domain studied there is no evidence for intermittency in these collisions beyond that accounted for by FRITIOF filtered through a full detector simulation.