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We first give a short general introduction to intermittency and fractal structure, and discuss how self-similar patterns can arise in particle production. Then we show that at high energies, self-similar jet production leads to a universal power law behaviour for the multiplicity moments as a function of the relative rapidity Y/δy, once the rapidity intervals δy are large enough to be outside the usual resonance region (δy ≥1 – 2). Data from the UA5 experiment at CERN (for \( \sqrt{s} \) = 200,546 and 900 GeV) are found to agree very well with the predicted universal behaviour.
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Satz, H. (1990). The Fractal Structure of Multihadron Production at High Energies. In: Cleymans, J. (eds) Phase Structure of Strongly Interacting Matter. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87821-3_6
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