From: Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje (gardhoje@nbi.dk)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 16:06:18 EDT
Dera collaborators. Claus and I have written a first draft of a high pt paper from the BRAHMS collaboration while in exile in Moscow. It is attached to this message. Clearly a fair amount of additional work is needed, before a reasonable end product is achieved. This concerns, the text, the references, the figures, and not least some checks of the data (mainly the y=2.2 and the d+Au centrality cuts at y=0). We have previously agreed that BRAHMS affairs should proceed in an orderly fashion with a paper committee and a series of consultations to the collaboration within a reasonable time frame. The situation here is however such that it is imperative that we submit a paper by the end of next week, to maintain some sort of competitiveness with the other RHIC experiments, due to a pre-history and chain of events that I shall not go into here. It is by now clear that a wide community regards the body of pt measurements from RHIC as a main contender for a QGP proof. Since we have data that is fully competitive we should keep ourselves in the mainstream. We wil therefore have to act on short notice and with urgency. The ambition is therefore to have a paper ready for submission by the end of next week unless we find a grievous mistake in the analysis. This will require concrete and fast help from a number of people. A suggestion for a plan to produce the necessary checks has been circulated to a subset of the collaboration. We urge the rest of the collaboration, in addition to the paper commitee that has a main responsibility, to contribute as possible to the analysis issues and in particular to comment ASAP on the proposed text. The figures are available from the BNL and Moscow talks. regards JJ ____________________________________________________________ Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, Assoc. Prof., Dr. Sc. Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Tlf: (+45) 35 32 53 09, secr. (+45) 35 32 52 09, Fax: (+45) 35 32 50 16. UNESCO Natl. Comm., secr. (+45) 33 92 52 16. Email: gardhoje@nbi.dk. ____________________________________________________________
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