My life with the Glauber Model:

The first step (there where many zeroeth steps) was to confirm that my model could make predictions which agreed with experimets.

Next I found a relyable way to calculate the nuclon-nucleon cross section for different energies.

Now I must use the model to compare experiments with different properties (ex: centrality binning)

to do list:

1. Calculate average number of participants over centrality bins.

a srtaight forward method

a more complex, but more acurate(?) method (incomplete)

2. Do it all again with the Monte Carlo Glauber Model!

I'd like to thank Dan Cebra for his patience while I worked on this project, Ramona Vogt for providing Crucial information, and Jim Draper for making sure I knew what I was doing.