Centrality dependence of the thermal excitation-energy deposition in   8-15 GeV/c hadron-Au reactions
  The excitation energy per residue nucleon (E*/A) and fast and thermal light particle multiplicities are studied as a function of centrality defined as the number of grey tracks emitted N_grey and by the mean number of primary hadron-nucleon scatterings <nu> and mean impact parameter <b> extracted from it. The value of E*/A and the multiplicities show an increase with centrality for all systems, 14.6 GeV p-Au and 8.0 GeV pi-Au and pbar-Au collisions, and the excitation energy per residue nucleon exhibits a uniform dependence on N_grey. 
R.A. Soltz, R.J. Newby, J.L. Klay, M. Heffner, L. Beaulieu, T. Lefort,   K. Kwiatkowski, V.E. Viola