@article{91ca8feae2ce45afbc69be3d6e8709f5,
title = "Analysis of multiplicity moments for hadronic multiparticle data",
abstract = "We show that rapidity-bin factorial moments contain a large combinatoric contribution from two-particle correlations. In addition, the higher-order correlations are nonnegligible and increase with energy. The analysis is completely general and also applies for the case where the moments scale. We find that the linked-pair approximation (LPA) for higher correlations is valid for UA1 and UA5 data, with coefficients that are approximately independent of energy and somewhat smaller than for the negative binomial distribution.",
author = "P. Carruthers and Eggers, {H. C.} and Ina Sarcevic",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported in part by the US Department of Energy Divisions of High Energy and Nuclear Physics. P.C. and I.S. are grateful to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for support, and to the Free University Berlin, and the Max-Planck Institutes (Quantum Optics in Garching and the Heisenberg Institute in Munich) for their hospitality. H.C.E. was supported in part by the Foundation for Research Development, South Africa. The authors are indebted to W. Kittel and P. Lipa for generous help with data and its interpretation. Conversations with A. Bokan and G. Jancso have been very helpful in sharpening our understanding of the experimental issues.",
year = "1991",
month = jan,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1016/0370-2693(91)90431-O",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "254",
pages = "258--266",
journal = "Physics Letters B",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "1-2",
}