1. Rapidity dependent strangeness measurements in BRAHMS experiment at RHIC
- Author
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J H Lee, (for the BRAHMIS Collaboration), I G Bearden, D Beavis, C Besliu, B Budick, H Bøggild, C Chasman, C H Christensen, P Christiansen, J Cibor, R Debbe, E Enger, J J Gaardhøje, M Germinario, K Hagel, O Hansen, A Holm, H Ito, E Jakobsen, A Jipa, F Jundt, J I Jørdre, C E Jørgensen, R Karabowicz, E J Kim, T Kozik, T M Larsen, Y K Lee, G Løvhøiden, Z Majka, A Makeev, M Mikelsen, M Murray, J Natowitz, B S Nielsen, J Norris, K Olchanski, J Olness, D Ouerdane, R P aneta, F Rami, C Ristea, D Röhrich, B H Samset, D Sandberg, S J Sanders, P Staszel, T S Tveter, F Videbæk, R Wada, A Wieloch, Z Yin, and I S Zgura
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Physics ,Nuclear physics ,Nuclear reaction ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Pion ,Meson ,Hadron ,Transverse mass ,Rapidity ,Strangeness ,Nuclear Experiment ,Charged particle - Abstract
Particle production of charged kaons in central Au+Au collisions at has been studied as a function of rapidity by the BRAHMS collaboration at RHIC. The kaon spectral shapes are described well by an exponential in transverse mass for the rapidity range of 0 ≤ yK ≤ 3.3 with smoothly decreasing inverse slopes as the rapidity increases. For the charged kaon to pion ratios, while there is no significant rapidity dependence for the K+/π+ ratio, the K−/π− ratio shows a significant decrease from y ≈ 1 towards higher rapidities. The systematics of K−/K+ and ratios in the measured rapidity range demonstrates a strongly correlated behaviour which can be described by thermal–statistical models.
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- 2003