Dear friends, Attached please find version 3.3 of the paper. Steve and I consider this the final version, i.e. the one that goes for discussion to the collaboration. We hope for many constructive comments. Steve has updated all tables and numbers. Michael has contributed with references and a revtex 4 version. Hiro has made the figures (inspect the kansas account : pii3.brahms.bnl.gov/~kansas/dndeta01/ ) I'm sure that Steve (when he wakes up EST) will update the kansas account with this document and with the latest figures (1-5 and alternative 5), so that it will available to all later this evening. There has been a fair discussion with many people already -also outside the paper committee- on the figures and the associated text. It appears that there is a majority that favor the Npart plot (fig.5 ) over the Nch plot (alternative fig. 5) and a majority in favor of keeping the fragmentation plot (fig.2.). This is also Steve's and my point of view. So this is the format of the present paper. There has been discussion on the title over the last 24 hrs.: I have tentatively invented a new title - which I actually think is not just populistic: 'Role of parton collisions in the production of charged particles in 100AGeV+100AGeV Au+AU collisions at RHIC.' This is in fact what we explore via the measurements and the comparisons to the relevant models. The old and very standard title is commented out in the paper. There are obviously details that will need to be adjusted in the text, also based on input from the entire collaboration, but the data and thus the basic results are not expected to change. The rest is thus mainly details of presentation and perhaps some fine tuning of the text length. We are prepared to announce tomorrow, wednesday, the paper to BNL and the other experiments. This just entails submitting the title and the abstract (SO COMMENT IMMEDIATELY ON THIS; PLEASE). The ambition is to receive input from all interested parties very rapidly (by the end of the week) so that (depending on the degree of criticism by sceptics) we may be ready to post the entire draft to the other RHIC spokespeople by early next week and submit to PRL shortly afterwards. cheers JJ
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