1. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Particules Elémentaires, Université de Paris Sud, Batiment 211, F-91405, Orsay, France 2. Departmento de Fisica Teorica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Abstract:
We compute the leading baryon spectrum in high-energy nuclear collisions in the framework of the Dual parton model. Nucleus-nucleus collisions are treated in full detail. The average rapidity shift of the leading baryon (nuclear stopping power) is studied as a function of the degree of centrality of the collision and the cross-section of the selected events is given. Important differences are found here between proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions. The agreement with existing data on proton-nucleus and α?α collisions is quite good.