Projectile mass and energy dependence of multifractal detrended cross-correlation analysis of pseudorapidity space and azimuthal space in high energy nuclear collisions

Abstract

This paper studies the cross-correlation between the pseudorapidity and azimuthal distributions of the shower particles emitted in [Formula: see text]S-AgBr interactions at 200[Formula: see text]GeV and [Formula: see text]O-AgBr interactions at 60[Formula: see text]GeV applying Multifractal detrended cross-correlation analysis (MF-DXA) methodology. The cross-correlation between the pseudorapidity ([Formula: see text]) space and the azimuthal ([Formula: see text]) space is found to exhibit multifractality in case of both the interactions. The results obtained from the analysis of the experimental data were compared with those obtained for the randomly shuffled data for both the interactions, and the results revealed that the multifractality is due to the presence of long-range correlations. The study clearly indicates that the strength of the cross-correlation depends on both the projectile mass and energy.