  A possible signal of new phenomena emerging in the global characteristics of
multiparticle production in hadron interactions at TeV energies is studied. The
multiplicity distributions of charged particles measured in proton-proton
collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN are analyzed in the
phenomenological framework of the weighted superposition of three negative
binomial distribution functions. The examination of the experimental data
indicates the existence of a narrow peak at low multiplicities which can be
described by a separate component in the total distribution. The multiplicity
characteristics of the third component reveal approximate energy and
pseudorapidity invariance, of which a physical explanation represents a
challenging problem in high energy multiple particle production.
