It is shown that the charged multiplicity distributions of the diffractive and nondiffractive components of hadronic interactions, as well as those of hadronic states produced in a variety of other reactions, follow a universal function which depends only on the mass available for pionization. This function is Gaussian, peaks at n₀2M1/2, where M is the available mass in gigaelectronvolts, and has a width D=(〈n²〉-n₀²)1/2 such that n₀D2.
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Goulianos et al. (1982) studied this question.
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