Pion-kaon correlations in central Au+Au collisions at √sNN=130 GeV -: art. no. 262302

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Adams, J [1 ]
Adler, C
Aggarwal, MM
Ahammed, Z
Amonett, J
Anderson, BD
Anderson, M
Arkhipkin, D
Averichev, GS
Badyal, SK
Balewski, J
Barannikova, O
Barnby, LS
Baudot, J
Bekele, S
Belaga, VV
Bellwied, R
Berger, J
Bezverkhny, BI
Bhardwaj, S
Bhaskar, P
Bhati, AK
Bichsel, H
Billmeier, A
Bland, LC
Blyth, CO
Bonner, BE
Botje, M
Boucham, A
Brandin, A
Bravar, A
Cadman, RV
Cai, XZ
Caines, H
Sánchez, MCD
Carroll, J
Castillo, J
Castro, M
Cebra, D
Chaloupka, P
Chattopadhyay, S
Chen, HF
Chen, Y
Chernenko, SP
Cherney, M
Chikanian, A
Choi, B
Christie, W
Coffin, JP
Cormier, TM
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[1] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[2] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[3] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[4] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[5] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[6] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[7] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[8] Creighton Univ, Omaha, NE 68178 USA
[9] Nucl Phys Inst AS CR, Rez, Czech Republic
[10] Lab High Energy JINR, Dubna, Russia
[11] Particle Phys Lab JINR, Dubna, Russia
[12] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, D-6000 Frankfurt, Germany
[13] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47408 USA
[14] Inst Phys, Bhubaneswar 751005, Orissa, India
[15] Inst Rech Subatom, Strasbourg, France
[16] Univ Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
[17] Kent State Univ, Kent, OH 44242 USA
[18] Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[19] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[20] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[21] Moscow Engn Phys Inst, Moscow 115409, Russia
[22] CUNY City Coll, New York, NY 10031 USA
[23] NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[24] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[25] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[26] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[27] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[28] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[29] Univ Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, Rajasthan, India
[30] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77251 USA
[31] Univ Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[32] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230027, Anhui, Peoples R China
[33] Acad Sinica, Shanghai Inst Nucl Res, Shanghai 201800, Peoples R China
[34] SUBATECH, Nantes, France
[35] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[36] Univ Texas, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[37] Valparaiso Univ, Valparaiso, IN 46383 USA
[38] Bhabha Atom Res Ctr, Ctr Variable Energy Cyclotron, Kolkata 700064, W Bengal, India
[39] Warsaw Univ Technol, Warsaw, Poland
[40] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[41] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48201 USA
[42] CCNU HZNU, Inst Particle Phys, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China
[43] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[44] Univ Zagreb, HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.262302
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摘要
Pion-kaon correlation functions are constructed from central Au+Au STAR data taken at roots(NN)=130 GeV by the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The results suggest that pions and kaons are not emitted at the same average space-time point. Space-momentum correlations, i.e., transverse flow, lead to a space-time emission asymmetry of pions and kaons that is consistent with the data. This result provides new independent evidence that the system created at RHIC undergoes a collective transverse expansion.
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