Charged-particle multiplicity near midrapidity in central Au plus Au collisions at √sNN=56 and 130 GeV

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作者
Back, BB [1 ]
Baker, MD
Barton, DS
Basilev, S
Bates, BD
Baum, R
Betts, RR
Bialas, A
Bindel, R
Bogucki, W
Budzanowski, A
Busza, W
Carroll, A
Ceglia, M
Chang, YH
Chen, AE
Coghen, T
Conner, C
Czyz, W
Dabrowski, B
Decowski, MP
Despet, M
Fita, P
Fitch, J
Friedl, M
Galuszka, K
Ganz, R
Garcia, E
George, N
Godlewski, J
Gomes, C
Griesmayer, E
Gulbrandsen, K
Gushue, S
Halik, J
Halliwell, C
Haridas, P
Hayes, A
Heintzelman, GA
Henderson, C
Hollis, R
Holynski, R
Holzman, B
Johnson, E
Kane, J
Katzy, J
Kita, W
Kotula, J
Kraner, H
Kucewicz, W
机构
[1] Argonne Natl Lab, Div Phys, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[2] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Chem, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[3] Brookhaven Natl Lab, CA Dept, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[4] Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[5] Jagiellonian Univ, Dept Phys, Krakow, Poland
[6] MIT, Nucl Sci Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[7] Natl Cent Univ, Dept Phys, Chungli 32054, Taiwan
[8] Univ Illinois, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
[9] Univ Maryland, Dept Chem & Biochem, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[10] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[11] Univ Rochester, Dept Phys & Astron, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[12] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3100
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We present the first measurement of pseudorapidity densities of primary charged particles near midrapidity in Au + Au collisions at root S-NN = 56 and 130 GeV. For the most central collisions, we find the charged-particle pseudorapidity density to be dN/d eta/(/eta/<t) = 408 +/- 12(stat) +/- 30(syst) at 56 GeV and 555 +/- 12(stat) +/- 35(syst) at 130 GeV, values that are higher than any previously observed in nuclear collisions. Compared to proton-antiproton collisions, our data show an increase in the pseudorapidity density per participant by more than 40% at the higher energy.
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页码:3100 / 3104
页数:5
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