Unitarity effects in high-energy nuclear abrasion

On the fragmentation of the projectile in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

“…It also fits nicely with the experimental cross sections which are much smaller than in this calculation. As was pointed out by Julius and Rinat [9 ], the pionic degrees of freedom will change drastically these numbers. Obviously the multiplicity will increase since the pions have rather short mean free paths involving mUltiple collisions.…”