Nuclear transparency in heavy-ion collisions at 14.6 GeV/nucleon Original Research Article

The probability of a projectile nucleon to traverse a target nucleus without interaction is calculated for central Si–Pb collisions and compared to the data of E814. The calculations are performed in two independent ways, via Glauber theory and using the transport code UrQMD. For central collisions Glauber predictions are about 30 to 50% higher than experiment, while the output of UrQMD does not show the experimental peak of beam rapidity particles.