Structures in Multiplicity Distributions and Oscillations of Moments

The possibility to relate multiplicity distributions and their moments, as measured in the hadronic final state in e(+)e(-) annihilation, to features of the initial partonic state is analyzed from a theoretical and phenomenological point of view. Recent developments on the subject are discussed.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures (PS included); LaTeX 2e compatibility mode, uses epsfig and amstex. Available also via http://www.thep.lu.se/tf2/hep/article.hep.html . To be published in the Proceedings of XXVI Multiparticle Dynamics (Faro, Portugal, Sept 96

Forward-Backward Multiplicity Correlations in Symmetric and Asymmetric High Energy Collisions

Forward-backward correlations are explored within the two-component clan model of multiparticle production. It is found that existing data are well described, and, in hh collisions, that clans must be allowed to leak particles from one hemisphere to the other. General formulae given for the symmetric case are then extended to the asymmetric one, which is relevant for pA and AB collisions.Comment: 5 pages, no figures. Talk given at XXXII Int.l Symp. on Multiparticle Dynamics (Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine, Sept. 7-13, 2002

Clan structure analysis and new physics signals in pp collisions at LHC

The study of possible new physics signals in global event properties in pp collisions in full phase space and in rapidity intervals accessible at LHC is presented. The main characteristic is the presence of an elbow structure in final charged particle MD's in addition to the shoulder observed at lower c.m. energies.Comment: 9 pages, talk given at Focus on Multiplicity (Bari, Italy, June 2004

Scenarios for multiplicity distributions in pp collisions in the TeV energy region

Possible scenarios based on available experimental data and phenomenological knowledge of the GeV energy region are extended to the TeV energy region in the framework of the weighted superposition mechanism of soft and semi-hard events. KNO scaling violations, forward-backward multiplicity correlations, Hq vs. q oscillations and shoulder structures are discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, talk given at "Focus on Multiplicity" (Bari, Italy, June 2004

Superposition effect and clan structure in forward-backward multiplicity correlations

The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the link between forward-backward multiplicity correlations properties and the shape of the corresponding final charged particle multiplicity distribution in various classes of events in different collisions. It is shown that the same mechanism which explains the shoulder effect and the H_n vs. n oscillations in charged particle multiplicity distributions, i.e., the weighted superposition of different classes of events with negative binomial properties, reproduces within experimental errors also the forward-backward multiplicity correlation strength in e+e- annihilation at LEP energy and allows interesting predictions for pp collisions in the TeV energy region, to be tested at LHC, for instance with the ALICE detector. We limit ourselves at present to study substructures properties in hadron-hadron collisions and e+e- annihilation; they are examined as ancillary examples in the conviction that their understanding might be relevant also in other more complex cases.Comment: 16 page