Intermittent type fluctuation of target fragments produced in 16O-AgBr interactions at 4.5 AGeV/c

A study of intermittency of target associated fragments produced in the interactions of ¹⁶O-AgBr at 4.5 AGeV/c with nuclear emulsion using the method of factorial moments, F_q, has been performed. The dependence of the moments on the number of bins M is found to follow a power law behavior for the experimental data in terms of new scaled variable χ(z) suggested by Bialas and Gazdzicki. The anomalous dimensions, d_q, increase linearly with the order of moments, q. This observation indicates the association of multifractility with production mechanism of target associated fragments.