Multifractal Analysis Of Minimum Bias Events In Root-S = 630 Gev (P)Over-Bar-P Collisions

A search for multifractal structures, in analogy with multifractal theories, is performed on UA1 minimum bias events. A downward concave multifractal spectral function, f(alpha) (where alpha is the Lipschitz-Holder exponent), indicates that there are self-similar cascading processes, governing the evolution from the quark to the hadron level, in the final states of hadronic interactions. f(alpha) is an accurate measure of the bin to bin fluctuations of any observable. It is shown that the most sensitive comparison between data and the Monte Carlo models, GENCL and PYTHIA 4.8 can be made using f(alpha). It is found that these models do not fully reproduce the behaviour of the data.