Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2008-10-24
Phys.Rev.C79:064907,2009
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
figure added, updated data and references, to be published in PRC
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.79.064907
In ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, the multiplicity of multi-strange baryons per participating nucleon increases with centrality in a different fashion for different systems and energies. At RHIC, for copper+copper (CuCu) collisions the increase is much steeper than for gold-gold (AuAu) collisions. We show that this system size dependence is due to a core-corona effect: the relative importance of the corona as compared to the core (thermalized matter) contribution varies and the contribution of a corona nucleon to the multiplicity differs from that of a core nucleon. $\phi$ mesons follow in principle the same trend, but the difference between core and corona multiplicity is relatively small, and therefore the CuCu and AuAu results are quite similar. This simple geometrical explanation makes also a strong case in favor of the validity of Glauber geometry in the peripheral regions of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, which is crucial for understanding the early evolution of the system.
Aichelin Joerg
Werner Kirstin
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