Determination of the number of wounded nucleons in Pb plus Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c

Authors
Antinori, F Badala, A Bakke, H Barbera, R Beker, H Beusch, W Bloodworth, IJ Botje, M Caliandro, R Campbell, M Cantatore, E Carena, W Carrer, N de Haas, AP Di Bari, D Di Liberto, S Divia, R Elia, D Evans, D Fanebust, K Fedorisin, J Feofilov, GA Fini, RA Ftacnik, J Ghidini, B Grella, G Gulino, M Helstrup, H Holme, AK Huss, D Jacholkowski, A Jones, GT Jovanovic, P Jusko, A Kamermans, R Kinson, JB Klempt, W Knudson, K Kolojvari, AA Kralik, I Kuijer, P Lenti, V Lietava, R Loconsole, RA Lovhoiden, G Luptak, M Manzari, V Mazzoni, MA Martinska, G Meddi, F Michalon, A Michalon-Mentzer, ME Morando, M Nappi, E Navach, F Norman, PI Palmeri, A Pappalardo, GS Pastircak, B Pellegrini, F Pisut, J Pisutova, N Posa, F Quercigh, E Riggi, F Rohrich, D Romano, G Safarik, K Sandor, L Schillings, E Segato, G Snoeys, W Staroba, P Stolyarov, OI Thompson, M Thorsteinsen, TF Tomasicchio, G Torrieri, GD Tsimbal, FA Tulina, TA Turrisi, R Tveter, TS Urban, J Valiev, FF van den Brink, A van de Ven, P Vande Vyvre, P van Eijndhoven, N Vannucci, L Vascotto, A Baillie, OV Vinogradov, I Virgili, T Votruba, MF Vrlakova, J Zavada, P
Citation
F. Antinori et al., Determination of the number of wounded nucleons in Pb plus Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c, EUR PHY J C, 18(1), 2000, pp. 57-63
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
ISSN journal
14346044 → ACNP
Volume
18
Issue
1
Year of publication
2000
Pages
57 - 63
Database
ISI
SICI code
1434-6044(200012)18:1<57:DOTNOW>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
The charged particle multiplicity distributions measured by two experiments , WA97 and NA57, in Ph + Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c have been analyzed in the framework of the Wounded Nucleon Model (WNM). We obtain a brood descri ption of the data within the centrality range of our samples. This allows u s to make use of the measured multiplicities to estimate the number of woun ded nucleons of the collision.