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The nucleus-nucleus Glauber amplitude in the tree approximation is studied for heavy participant nuclei. It is shown that, contrary to previous published results, it is not unitary for realistic values of nucleon-nucleon cross sections.
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Braun, M.A., Krylov, A.V. Unitarity of the tree approximation to the Glauber AA amplitude for large A . Phys. Atom. Nuclei 74, 199–208 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778811020086
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