Compensation in Intermittency Strength of the Hard and SoftComponents in Hadron-Hadron Collisions

The controversy in experimental data on the transverse momentum dependence of intermittency at different energies is studied. It is shown that this controversy is due to the appearance of a new component - the jet (or mini-jet) component together with the normal soft one at the collider energies. It is shown that the compensation effect of these two components results in a U shape for the dependence of intermittency indices on the average transverse momentum per event P_⊥ which is a good quantity to characterize the relative size of soft and hard components in an event. In a linearization approximation the fraction of the soft component can be determined directly from P_⊥.