How Nuclear Diffuseness Affects RHIC Data

Details How Nuclear Diffuseness Affects RHIC Data How Nuclear Diffuseness Affects RHIC Data

2006-03-08

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0603064v3

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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The fact that nuclei have diffuse surfaces (rather than being simple spheres) has dramatic consequences on the interpretation of RHIC heavy-ion data. The effect is quite small (but not negligible) for central collisions, but gets increasingly important with decreasing centrality. One may actually divide the collision zone into a central part ("core"), with expected high energy densities, and a peripheral part ("corona"), with smaller energy densities, more like in pp or pA collisions. We will discuss that many complicated "features" observed at RHIC become almost trivial after subtracting the corona background. We are focussing on AuAu collisions at 200 GeV.

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