2006/03/08 by K. Werner, Klaus Werner, Werner, Klaus
Chemistry · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Field-Flow Fractionation Techniques #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #NMR spectroscopy and applications #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #astro-ph #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0603064
openalex publication_date 2006/03/08 · arxiv created 2006/03/10 · arxiv updated 2016/04/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The fact that nuclei have diffuse surfaces (rather than being simple spheres) has dramatic consequences on the interpretation of RHIC heavy-ion data. The effect is quite small (but not negligible) for central collisions, but gets increasingly important with decreasing centrality. One may actually divide the collision zone into a central part ("core"), with expected high energy densities, and a peripheral part ("corona"), with smaller energy densities, more like in pp or pA collisions. We will discuss that many complicated "features" observed at RHIC become almost trivial after subtracting the corona background. We are focussing on AuAu collisions at 200 GeV.