Charged Particle, Photon Multiplicity, and Transverse Energy Production in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions

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of collision centrality for a wide range of energies spanning RHIC beam energy scan to LHC. Lower panel: the mean transverse momentum as a function of collision centrality, for both top RHIC energy and LHC 2.76 TeV center of mass energy. 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Figure 44: Charged Particle, Photon Multiplicity, and Transverse Energy Production in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions 