DOI 10.1007/s100520000521
Determination of the number of wounded nucleons
in Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c
The WA97 and NA57 Collaborations
F. Antinori12 - et al.
12 Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione
INFN, Padua, Italy
Received: 9 December 1999 / Published online: 13 November 2000 - © Springer-Verlag 2000
Abstract
The charged particle multiplicity distributions measured by two
experiments, WA97 and NA57, in
Pb+Pb collisions at
have been analyzed in the framework of the
Wounded Nucleon Model (WNM). We obtain a good description of the
data within the centrality range of our samples. This allows us to
make use of the measured multiplicities to estimate the number of
wounded nucleons of the collision.
Copyright Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag 2000
