Correlations in multiple production on nuclei
Nikolaev N.N.
It is shown that secondary interactions of the produced particles inside the nucleus lead to negative contributions to the short-range correlations in rapidity. A reversal of the sign of the correlation between the fast particles and the fragments of the target nucleus is predicted on going from the central part of the spectrum to fragmentation of the incident particle. An experimental study of the correlations in production on nuclei would make possible a sufficiently reliable choice between different multiple-production models.