It reports on charge fluctuations in \pi ⁺p and K⁺p collisions at 250 GeV/c. The dependence of these fluctuations on the size of rapidity window and on the multiplicity are presented systematically. The results are compared with those obtained from current theoretical expectations for a hadronic gas, a QGP phase, a stochastic model and a PYTHIA simulation.

PACS numbers: 13.85.Hd, 25.75.-q