Hi Peter, The draft looks very good. Very nice results. I have a few comments/suggestions: - I suggest to plot Fig.3 as a function of the scaled rapidity (Ycm/Ybeam). This is the most natural way to compare data at different energies. One should remove trivial energy dependences. Another advantage -> we don't need to show the 3 vertical lines (Y_AGS, Y_SPS and Y_RHIC). And this would make the discussion much simpler... - The last sentence of the paper says "... the rapidity loss seems to saturate between SPS and RHIC energies" It seems to me that this saturation does not mean anything. Actually, in order to compare different energies one should define the rapidity loss as (yp - <y>)/yp (as in Ref.3). This quantity would be constant (=0.64) from AGS to SPS and would deviate significantly from the scaling at RHIC. The value of the (scaled) rapidity loss at RHIC would be much lower than at AGS/SPS which would reflect simply the fact that the collision is much more transparent at RHIC. All this discussion would become much more simpler, if you use the 'appropriate' definition of the rapidity loss (yp - <y>)/yp) in Fig.4. Best regards, Fouad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fouad RAMI e-mail: fouad.rami@ires.in2p3.fr IReS phone : 33.(0)3.88.10.62.00 23,rue du Loess : 33.(0)3.88.10.64.55 B.P.28-BAT.20 (secretary's office) 67037 Strasbourg Cedex 2 fax : 33.(0)3.88.10.66.14 France ----------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Peter H. L. Christiansen wrote: > Hi > > > 13:45 > > Publications > > Status & outstanding issues of papers to be presented by paper committee. > > > > ( JH d-Au dN/deta paper (SJSanders) (10) > > Stopping paper (IG.Bearden) (20) > > Kaon an pion (meson) paper (D.Roehrich) (20) > > Centrality dependence of charged hadrons at y~0 and 1 (JH.Lee) (20) > > > > You can look at the current status of the stopping paper in our paper cvs > or check it out here. : > http://www.nbi.dk/~pchristi/stopping.ps > http://www.nbi.dk/~pchristi/stopping.pdf > > I hope there will be a good discussion about it at the collaboration > meeting, so we can submit it around the 15th of December. I am not > interested in comments about details and the language from everybody now. > If the plots and content, i.e, the general layout that has been accepted > by the paper commitee is agreed upon at the meeting then I think we can > fix the rest quickly. > > Cheers > Peter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Brahms-l mailing list > Brahms-l@lists.bnl.gov > http://lists.bnl.gov/mailman/listinfo/brahms-l > _______________________________________________ Brahms-l mailing list Brahms-l@lists.bnl.gov http://lists.bnl.gov/mailman/listinfo/brahms-lReceived on Wed Dec 3 04:47:08 2003
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