Dear Chellis, Thank you for your comments. Most have already found their way into the manuscript. The update on the kansas account will be forthcoming. I was intrigued by your mention of the growing width of the distributions with decreasing centrality. My primitive determination of the FWHM of the distributions (with a ruler on a fair sized plot, maximum determined around eta=1 i.e. at the 'peaks') shows, however, no trend that I would dare call systematic. 0-5% FWHM= 12.8 cm 5-10% FWHM= 13.0 cm 10-20% FWHM= 13.2 cm 20-30% FWHM= 13.2 cm 30-40% FWHM= 12.8 cm 40-50% FWHM= 12.8 cm In case, people get nervous about the cm scale, the conversion is 8.5 cm for 5 units of eta. Thus the largest variation in FWHM is of order Deta=0.2. If anything, there is a slight 'bulging' at intermediate centralities - perhaps reminiscent of the bulging of our midriffs! Have I missed something? We think that rapid publication of a manuscript on 200 GeV from BRAHMS has higher priority than an extended reflexion period to the collaboration. In any case it has been good to see the rapid response with comments and opinions from a majority of BRAHMS groups. best regards and best wishes for Thanksgiving JJ ________________________________ Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje Assoc. prof. Dr. Scient. Chair Ph.D: school of Physics NBI.f.AFG. (secretariat. 35 32 04 41) Chair science committee. UNESCO Natl. Commission. (secretariat. 33 92 52 16) Office: Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark. Tlf: (+45) 35 32 53 09 Fax: (+45) 35 32 50 16 ________________________________
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