Multihadron production in high-energy interactions and intermittency.

Nonstatistical multiplicity fluctuations in narrow pseudorapidity intervals have been studied in the pionization process of [pi][sup [minus]]-Ag/Br and [ital p]-Ag/Br interaction data at 350 GeV/[ital c] and 400 GeV/[ital c], respectively, in terms of scaled factorial moments. An intermittent pattern of fluctuations is evident for pionization processes in both cases. An investigation of anomalous fractal dimensions suggests a cascading mechanism for the multihadron production process. A further analysis of the data in terms of a scaling law for a different order of the moments has been done. The results support the proposed scaling behavior. We have also probed the emission process of the medium energy target-fragmented protons with the same tool. Interestingly, this study reveals similar behavior.