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In this work, we investigate the feasibility of defining centrality in electron-ion collisions at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) by examining the correlation between the impact parameter and several observables, including total energy,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-10 Mariam Hegazy , Aliaa Rafaat , Niseem Magdy , Wenliang Li , Abhay Deshpande , A. M. H. Abdelhady , A. Y. Ellithi

The centrality determination and the estimated fluctuations of number of participant nucleons $N_{part}$ in Au-Au collisions at 1.23 $A$GeV beam kinetic energy suffers from severe model dependencies. Comparing the Glauber Monte Carlo (MC)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-14 Manjunath Omana Kuttan , Jan Steinheimer , Kai Zhou , Marcus Bleicher , Horst Stoecker

We discuss the effects of initial collision geometry and centrality bin definition on correlation and fluctuation observables in nucleus-nucleus collisions. We focus on the forward-backward correlation coefficient recently measured by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-14 V. P. Konchakovski , M. Hauer , G Torrieri , M. I. Gorenstein , E. L. Bratkovskaya

This publication describes the methods used to measure the centrality of inelastic Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per colliding nucleon pair with ALICE. The centrality is a key parameter in the study of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-03-02 ALICE Collaboration

The dependencies of charged particle pseudorapidity density and transverse energy pseudorapidity density at midrapidity on the collision energy and on the number of nucleon participants, or centrality, measured in nucleus-nucleus collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-01 Aditya Nath Mishra , Raghunath Sahoo , Edward K. G. Sarkisyan , Alexander S. Sakharov

Collision centrality is a key parameter for studying nuclear matter properties, as it determines the initial interaction geometry and the size of the produced system. Accurate centrality determination is essential for comparing experimental…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-26 Dim Idrisov , Fedor Guber , Nikolay Karpushkin , Peter Parfenov

To estimate realistic cross sections in ultra peripheral heavy ion collisions we must remove effects of strong absorption. One method to eliminate these effects make use of a Glauber model calculation, where the nucleon-nucleon energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 C. G. Roldao , A. A. Natale

Heavy-ion experiments provide a new opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the structure of nuclei. To achieve this, it is crucial to identify observables under circumstances that are minimally affected by the process that leads to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-21 S. M. A. Tabatabaee , S. F. Taghavi

We investigate the influence of the nucleon-nucleon collision profile (probability of interaction as a function of the nucleon-nucleon impact parameter) in the wounded nucleon model and its extensions on several observables measured in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-03 Maciej Rybczyński , Wojciech Broniowski

The validity of impact parameter estimation from the multiplicity of charged particles at low-intermediate energies is checked within the framework of ImQMD model. The simulations show that the multiplicity of charged particles cannot…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-25 Li Li , Yingxun Zhang , Zhuxia Li , Nan Wang , Ying Cui , Jack Winkelbauer

The centrality dependence of the mean charged-particle multiplicity as a function of pseudorapidity is measured in approximately 1 $\mu$b$^{-1}$ of proton--lead collisions at a nucleon--nucleon centre-of-mass energy of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-05-04 ATLAS Collaboration

Global variables, such as the charged particle multiplicity and the transverse energy are important observables to characterize Relativistic Heavy Ion collisions and to constrain model calculations. The charged particle multiplicity…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Alberica Toia

The spatial distribution of interactions in high energy collisions of heavy nuclei is discussed using the wounded nucleon, binary collision, hard sphere, and colliding disk parameterizations of interaction densities. The mean radius, its…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Jacobs , Glenn Cooper

The number of particles detected in a nucleus-nucleus collision strongly depends on the impact parameter of the collision. Therefore, multiplicity fluctuations, as well as rapidity correlations of multiplicities, are dominated by impact…

We consider the dependences of the average number of interacting nucleons in high energy heavy ion collisions on the impact parameter in two cases, when the colliding nuclei have equal atomic weights, and when one nucleus is significantly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Pajares , Yu. M. Shabelski

Some of the centrality experiments indicate regime change and saturation in the behavior of characteristics of the secondary particles. It is observed as a critical phenomenon for hadron-nuclear, nuclear-nuclear interactions and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 M. K. Suleymanov , E. U. Khan , K. Ahmed , Mahnaz Q. Haseeb , Farida Tahir , Y. H. Huseynaliyev

Volume or centrality fluctuations (CF) is one of the main uncertainties for interpreting the centrality dependence of many experimental observables. The CF is constrained by centrality selection based on particle multiplicity in a reference…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-24 Mingliang Zhou , Jiangyong Jia

The Glauber model is extensively applied to heavy ion collision for describing a number of interaction processes over a wide range of energies from near the Coulomb barrier to higher energies. The model gives the nucleus-nucleus interaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Shukla

Centrality determination remains one of the major sources of systematic uncertainty in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collision analyses, especially for probing the nuclear equation of state (EoS) at supra-saturation densities. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-29 Xiaoqing Yue , Pengcheng Li , Yongjia Wang , Qingfeng Li , Fuhu Liu

In this paper, we propose a parameterization which is based on a phenomenological model involving the wounded quarks interactions for explaining the average charged particle multiplicity $\ < n_{ch}\ >$, the central pseudo-rapidity density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-26 Ashwini Kumar , B. K. Singh , P. K. Srivastava , C. P. Singh