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Nucleon participants or quark participants?

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We show that centrality dependence of charged particle pseudorapidity density at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at RHIC is well described as proportional to We show that centrality dependence of charged particle pseudorapidity density at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at RHIC is well described as proportional to the number of participating constituent quarks. In this approach there is no need for an additional contribution from hard processes usually considered in the models based on the number of the nucleon participants.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0302071,
  title  = {Nucleon participants or quark participants?},
  author = {S. Eremin and S. Voloshin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0302071},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

3 pages, 4 figures, latex, version accepted for publication in Phys.Rev. C