Comment on “Intermittency and correlations in 200 GeV/nucleon S+S and S+Au collisions”

The W80 Collaboration [Phys. Rev. C 50, 1048 (1994)] has presented an analysis of normalized factorial moments (NFM) of multiplicity distributions in central ³²S+S and ³²S+Au collisions at 200 GeV/nucleon. They claim to observe no intermittency signal, as characterized by a variation of the NFM with rapidity interval, beyond that produced by folding the FRITIOF event generator with a detailed model of their detector. In this Comment, it is pointed out that the difference in magnitude between the measured NFM and the detector simulation, which was not considered by WA80, also contains important information which can be used to extract the true NFM. In particular, F₂ is extracted and compared to other experiments.