[Brahms-l] RE: meson paper draft

   Dear Djamel,
          well done. The paper is much more polished. In my first ever talk I had graphs
of Et spectra from SPb ovs Fritioff and the Dual Parton Model. The DPM was clearly better but to my horrow Bo Anderson the author of Fritioff was in the front row. I 
desperately tried to fuddge the descrepancy and said that Fritoff was "not too bad".
Anderson's talk was next. The first thing he said was "Fritoff dosen't work", he then
chastised me for being so polite and said that the only way to learn something was
to point out when models failed. Why are we so polite to Bjorken scaling? I can accept 
that if may work approximately for +- 1 unit but can we seriously show Fig 3 and say
"Unfortunately, a
non negligible fraction of our systematic error depends on
$y$. Therefore, the present data cannot bring a definitive conclusion
regarding the Bjorken picture. "

I find that the abstract also too limited. Our data clearly favor some Landau like hydrodynamics. Also the rapidity dependence of particle ratios seems analagous to the
sqrt(s) dependence, suggesting a strong dependence on mu_b. I

I think Eqn 1 is superfluous. Why not just say gaussian. I think it is great to submit the data with the paper but could you squeeze in a table of intergrated yields?

I have a small number of comments on the language. I can put them in the latex file but I would prefer to talk with you on the phone.
Michael





-----Original Message-----
From:	Djamel Ouerdane [mailto:ouerdane@nbi.dk]
Sent:	Tue 2/17/2004 3:02 AM
To:	Dieter Rohrich
Cc:	Murray, Michael J; Flemming Videbæk; Jens Ivar Jordre; Ian G. Bearden; Jens Joergen Gaardhoje; Brahms List
Subject:	meson paper draft

Hi all,

You can find on these links the latest version of the meson paper, based 
on my PhD analysis. I'd like to thank the paper committee for its 
patience, comments and corrections. The plan is now to have comments from 
the entire collaboration and make an anouncement to the RHIC community.
Hopefully, this will happen in the next few days.

Please, take 15mn, read it and report last comments, mistakes, etc.

http://www.nbi.dk/~ouerdane/mesonAuAu200.ps
http://www.nbi.dk/~ouerdane/mesonAuAu200.pdf
http://www.nbi.dk/~ouerdane/mesonAuAu200.tex

I still need to include acknowledgement, there is room enough in the paper
(no more than 4 pages) and we should find room on our web page for data
tables (I have the tables).

Thanks,
Djam


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