Charged meson rapidity distributions in central Au plus Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV
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2005-04-29Author
Sanders, Stephen J.
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AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
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We have measured rapidity densities dN/dy of pi(+/-) and K+/- over a broad rapidity range (-0.1 < y < 3.5) for central Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV. These data have significant implications for the chemistry and dynamics of the dense system that is initially created in the collisions. The full phase-space yields are 1660 +/- 15 +/- 133 (pi(+)), 1683 +/- 16 +/- 135 (pi(-)), 286 +/- 5 +/- 23 (K+), and 242 +/- 4 +/- 19 (K-). The systematics of the strange to nonstrange meson ratios are found to track the variation of the baryochemical potential with rapidity and energy. Landau-Carruthers hydrodynamics is found to describe the bulk transport of the pions in the longitudinal direction.
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Sanders, Stephen J. Charged meson rapidity distributions in central Au plus Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. APRIL 29 2005. 94(16).
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