Dear BRAHMS Friends
At the end of August we decided at the Brahms collaboration meeting that
a
paper draft for the charged particle multiplicity distribution should be
circulated to the collaboration by the end of september.
We are now approaching the end of October. A draft (without numbers) has
been written and data has been shown at several meetings (including the
DNP meeting). This must mean that we
have sufficient confidence in the data to show them publicly. The
logical next step is to publish the information.
If we do not trust the information we should not show it. In any case,
the data and method of analysis, including the various corrections must
be made available to the full collaboration for critical asessment and
for decision as to the fate and content of the publication.
I strongly feel that we must intensify the effort on this piece of very
interesting first physics from BRAHMS. I therefore urge the members of
the collaboration that have been working on the data to circulate short
up to date write-up's on the analysis, with the aim of allowing the
collaboration to evaluate the present status and decide on a course of
action.
I would propose that we set ourselves the deadline that we by the next
collaboration meeting (end of november) bring ourselves in a position to
submit a paper. I also suggest the following plan of action:
1) notes on analysis to be produced by the people analyzing the data
(JHL, YB, FV etc..)
:BY NOV 3 =END THIS WEEK
2) preparation of figure layouts (VOLUNTERRS?)
:BY NOV 10 = END OF NEXT WEEK
3) model calculations with HIJING, NEXUS, CASSINGS model etc.. vs
centrality
: BY NOV 10
4) Production of next draft and circulation to collaboration
: BY NOV 17
5) Final discussion on paper and production of final draft.
: BY NOV 24 (BRAHMS collab. meeting at BNL)
I hope that this email can start a discussion in the collaboration on
this urgent matter. Please circulate your opinions on the general list,
so that all may be informed.
best regards to all
Jens Jorgen
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JENS JORGEN GAARDHOJE
Assoc. Prof. of Physics, Dr. Scient.
Niels Bohr Institute,
University of Copenhagen
Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen
Denmark.
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(+45) 35 32 52 09 (secr)
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Email: gardhoje @ nbi.dk
Home page: http://alf.nbi.dk/~gardhoje
-Chair Ph. D. School of Physics at NBI.F.AFG.
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-Member Danish National Commission for UNESCO
(secr. Ulla Holm 35 32 52 72, NBI)
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