Forward-Backward Multiplicity Correlations in Symmetric and Asymmetric High Energy Collisions

Abstract

Forward-backward correlations are explored within the two-component clan model of multiparticle production. It is found that existing data are well described, and, in hh collisions, that clans must be allowed to leak particles from one hemisphere to the other. General formulae given for the symmetric case are then extended to the asymmetric one, which is relevant for pA and AB collisions.

Comments: 5 pages, no figures. Talk given at XXXII Int.l Symp. on Multiparticle Dynamics (Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine, Sept. 7-13, 2002)