Hi, I agree with JH, the abstract looks somewhat misleading. I suggest a few small changes: We report on a study of the nuclear modification factor RdAu for charged high pt hadrons produced in d_Au collisions at sqrt(S_NN)=200GeV, as a function of the collision centrality and of the pseudorapidity (eta=0, 1, 2.2, 3.2) of the produced hadrons. We find that the behaviour of the RdAu factor changes from a typical Cronin enhancement (RdAu > 1) at mid-rapidity to a strong suppression (RdAu < 1) at the most forward pseudorapidity. This suppression is more pronounced in central collisions relative to periheral collisions. These observations suggest strong initial state effects, possibly related to the gluonic structure of the colliding nuclei. 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, 24 Feb 2004, Bjorn H Samset wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, J.H. Lee wrote: > > > I think the abstract is somewhat misleading. > > > > "The midrapidity Cronin enhancement and the forward rapidity suppression > > are more pronounces in the central collisions relative to peripheral > > collisions. This suggests strong initial state effects, possibly > related..." > > > > To me, it reads like that we are arguing the midrapidity Cronin > enhancement > > in the central collisions is also a strong 'initial state' effect. > > You're probably right. What about simply changing to "...relative to > peripheral collisions. Our results suggest strong initial state effects, > possibly related..." i.e. just state first what we see and then what we > will conclude? > > -- > Bjorn H. Samset Phone: 22856465/92051998 > PhD student, heavy ion physics Adr: Schouterrassen 6 > Inst. of Physics, University of Oslo 0573 Oslo > \|/ > ----------------------------> -*- <----------------------------- > /|\ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Feb 25 14:04:11 2004
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