Comparison of the Total Charged-Particle Multiplicity in High-Energy Heavy Ion Collisions with e+e- and pp/pbar-p Data

Details Comparison of the Total Charged-Particle Multiplicity in High-Energy Heavy Ion Collisions with e+e- and pp/pbar-p Data Comparison of the Total Charged-Particle Multiplicity in High-Energy Heavy Ion Collisions with e+e- and pp/pbar-p Data

2003-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0301017v1

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters

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The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC has measured the total multiplicity of primary charged particles as a function of collision centrality in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 19.6, 130 and 200 GeV. Above sqrt(s_NN) ~ 20 GeV, the total multiplicity per participating nucleon pair (/) in central events scales with sqrt(s) in the same way as in e+e- data. This is suggestive of a universal mechanism of particle production in strongly-interacting systems, controlled mainly by the amount of energy available for particle production (per participant pair for heavy ion collisions). The same effect has been observed in pp/pbar-p data after correcting for the energy taken away by leading particles. An approximate independence of / on the number of participating nucleons is also observed, reminiscent of ``wounded nucleon'' scaling ( proportional to ), but with the constant of proportionality set by the multiplicity measured in e+e- data rather than by pp/pbar-p data.

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