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Nucleon number dependence of longitudinal radii in ion-ion collisions as a signature of the onset of collective expansion

Jan Pisut, Neva Pisutova, Petr Zavada

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9605244

Abstract

In an attempt to disentangle the effects of nuclear geometry from those of nuclear geometry we study dependence of longitudinal radius on nucleon numbers of colliding nuclei within a simple model of multiple nucleon- nucleon collisions.We discuss two approaches to resulting simple formula.In the former the data up to S-Au can be described by nuclear geometry at the price of two parameters,but RL for Pb-Pb is significantly larger than geometry can accomodate, indicating an onset of a new dynamics. In the latter even collisions induced by lighter ions give evidence of some collective behaviour and the increase of RL for Pb-Pb indicates again the onset of a new dynamics.

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