2009, Vol.12, No.4, pp.390-394
Concepts of wounded nucleon and quark participants have been used
for years to parameterize and /or to explain many features of high
energy nuclear collisions. Some results illustrating successes and
failures of these two approaches are presented, including the
latest developments. In particular, results on identified particle
production from nuclear collisions measured by the NA49 experiment
at the CERN-SPS are shown. The study has been done for both the
nucleon and the constituent quark frameworks using the nuclear
overlap model. In addition, some preliminary observations
concerning the behavior of pT spectra at forward rapidities,
expressed in terms of the nuclear modification factor, for
hadron-nucleus collisions at the SPS energy are also presented.
These results are in relevance to RHIC results for deuteron-gold
collisions often interpreted as a manifestation of saturation
and /or color glass condensate.
Key words:
heavy-ion collisions, wounded nucleons and quarks,
multiplicity, nuclear modification factor, forward production,
saturation
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