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Particle production in nuclear collisions over a broad centrality range from the PHOBOS experiment

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The PHOBOS collaboration has studied the pseudorapidity and transverse momentum distributions of charged particles produced in heavy ion collisions. Results from Au+Au collisions at various center-of-mass energies and over a broad range of centrality are presented here. The data are compared to Cu+Cu, p+p and d+Au collisions at corresponding energies and centralities. The data are found to exhibit simple scaling properties such as the observed factorization of collision energy and geometry dependences. The presented data help us distinguish between models of particle production in relativistic heavy ion collisions.

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  1. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439-4843, USA

    B. B. Back & A. H. Wuosmaa

  2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973-5000, USA

    M. D. Baker, D. S. Barton, A. Carroll, Z. Chai, N. George, S. Gushue, G. A. Heintzelman, B. Holzman, R. Nouicer, R. Pak, L. P. Remsberg, I. Sedykh, M. A. Stankiewicz, P. Steinberg, A. Sukhanov, A. Szostak, D. Willhelm & S. Wyngaardt

  3. Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Kraków, Poland

    A. Budzanowski, T. Gburek, R. Ho⌈yński, A. Olszewski, P. Sawicki, A. Trzupek, B. Wosiek & K. Woźniak

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139-4307, USA

    B. Alver, M. Ballintijn, W. Busza, M. P. Decowski, K. Gulbrandsen, C. Henderson, J. L. Kane, P. Kulinich, W. Li, C. Loizides, C. Reed, C. Roland, G. Roland, L. Rosenberg, P. Sarin, G. S. F. Stephans, C. Vale, G. J. van Nieuwenhuizen, S. S. Vaurynovich, R. Verdier, G. I. Veres, P. Walters, E. Wenger & B. Wysłouch

  5. National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

    C. M. Kuo, W.T. Lin & J.-L. Tang

  6. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607-7059, USA

    R. R. Betts, V. Chetluru, E. García, C. Halliwell, I. Harnarine, D. J. Hofman, R. S. Hollis, A. Iordanova, W. Kucewicz, R. Nouicer, M. Reuter, J. Sagerer & C. E. Smith

  7. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    A. A. Bickley, R. Bindel, A. C. Mignerey, E. Richardson & M.B. Tonjes

  8. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14627, USA

    J. Hamblen, E. Johnson, N. Khan, S. Manly, I. C. Park, W. Skulski & F. L. H. Wolfs

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Alver, B., Back, B.B., Baker, M.D. et al. Particle production in nuclear collisions over a broad centrality range from the PHOBOS experiment. Czech J Phys 56 (Suppl 1), A39–A52 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10582-006-0141-3

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