From: Ramiro Debbe (debbe@bnl.gov)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 12:09:40 EDT
It was a pleasure to present the work done by Djamel and Peter. Our results at y=3 came right at the time people were discussing the usefulness of that information. I tried to focus my presentation within the context of hydrodynamics because that was the main trust of my session. You can see my ppt presentation on the BRAHMS page. The net charge plot was well received and agrees well with Dima's baryon junction prediction. The ratio pbar/pion was mentioned several times in previous talks (Barbara's and Gyulassy's ) as showing strong deviation from standard hadronization seen in e+e- anihilation (where that ratio never exceeds 0.2) And our results came in right in time. (I had prepared ratios of K+P/pi (if flow is responsible for the fact that there are more protons than pions above ~1.5GeV/c you want to compare heavier to light objects) but Flemming adviced me to show pbar/pi to avoid confusion with protons from the fragmentation region. It turned out to be really good advice) I used that comparison to make my point that transverse flow at y=3 is much reduced. Once again I felt proud to present results that make our work relevant to the community. Maybe because of the dramatic results of the big collaborations we somehow fall into a somber mood of being left behind, when in reality we hold "a total monopoly at high rapidity" (in the words of Gyulassy). I will not attend the collaboration meeting in Krakov, but I would like to make my point while I'm still elated by our results: I would like to push again to get the dA and p-p results out. Once again the community is waiting for the results at forward rapidities. I also had several people asking about when will our Au-Au results (pt distrib and related quantities) be published? I know there are many items that need attention, but that would certainly be a paper with lots of good physics. Ramiro
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