Intermittency in 200 GeV/nucleon S+S collisions

We have studied one and two-dimensional intermittency in S+S collisions at 200 GeV/nucleon in a high statistics electronic measurement at the CERN SPS using pad-readout streamer tubes. We observe no intermittency signal beyond that produced by folding the Fritiof event generator with a detailed model of our detector. Even though the observed signal contains significant distortions due to experimental effects, we show that we are sensitive to intermittency in the collision

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

Nonstatistical or "intermittent" fluctuations of charged particle multiplicities have been investigated at the CERN SPS with the WA80 multiplicity array for S-32+S and S-32+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.</p