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Measurements of the charged particle multiplicity distribution in restricted rapidity intervals

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1995
<mark>Journal</mark>Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields
Issue number1
Volume69
Number of pages11
Pages (from-to)15-25
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Charged particle multiplicity distributions have been measured with the ALEPH detector in restricted rapidity intervals |Y| ≤0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 along the thrust axis and also without restriction on rapidity. The distribution for the full range can be parametrized by a log-normal distribution. For smaller windows one finds a more complicated structure, which is understood to arise from perturbative effects. The negative-binomial distribution fails to describe the data both with and without the restriction on rapidity. The JETSET model is found to describe all aspects of the data while the width predicted by HERWIG is in significant disagreement.