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Centrality dependence of multiplicities in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We compute the centrality dependence of multiplicities of particles produced in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions at various energies and atomic numbers. The computation is carried out in perturbative QCD with saturated densities of produced gluons and by including effects of nuclear geometry. Numbers are given for Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0009246,
  title  = {Centrality dependence of multiplicities in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions},
  author = {K. J. Eskola and K. Kajantie and K. Tuominen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0009246},
  year   = {2014}
}

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7 pages, 4 eps-figures