Shadowing Effects on Particle and Transverse Energy Production

TL;DR

This paper investigates how shadowing influences the initial stages and transverse energy production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of shadowing effects on particle and energy production at different collider energies.

Findings

Shadowing significantly affects early collision dynamics.

Transverse energy production varies with collision energy and shadowing.

Results highlight the importance of shadowing in modeling heavy ion collisions.

Abstract

The effect of shadowing on the early state of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions and transverse energy production is discussed. Results are presented for RHIC Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV and LHC Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.5$ TeV.