Intermittency Study of Charged Particles Generated in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV Using EPOS3

Abstract

Charged particle multiplicity fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions are studied for the central events generated using EPOS3 (hydro and hydro+cascade) at sNN=2.76 TeV. Intermittency analysis is performed in the midrapidity region in two-dimensional (η, ϕ) phase space within the narrow transverse momentum (pT) bins in the low pT region (pT≤1.0 GeV/c). Power-law scaling of the normalized factorial moments with the number of bins is not observed to be significant in any of the pT bins. Scaling exponent ν, deduced for a few pT bins, is greater than that of the value 1.304, predicted for the second-order phase transition by the Ginzburg-Landau theory. The link in the notions of fractality is also studied. Generalized fractal dimensions, Dq, are observed to decrease with the order of the moment q suggesting the multifractal nature of the particle generation in EPOS3.