{"paper":{"title":"How Nuclear Diffuseness Affects RHIC Data","license":"","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph","nucl-ex","nucl-th"],"primary_cat":"hep-ph","authors_text":"Klaus Werner","submitted_at":"2006-03-08T20:56:37Z","abstract_excerpt":"The fact that nuclei have diffuse surfaces (rather than being simple spheres) has dramatic consequences on the interpretation of RHIC heavy-ion data.\n The effect is quite small (but not negligible) for central collisions, but gets increasingly important with decreasing centrality.\n One may actually divide the collision zone into a central part (\"core\"), with expected high energy densities, and a peripheral part (\"corona\"), with smaller energy densities, more like in pp or pA collisions.\n We will discuss that many complicated \"features\" observed at RHIC become almost trivial after subtracting t"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"hep-ph/0603064","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}