1. Charged pion production in $\mathbf{Au+Au}$ collisions at $\mathbf{\sqrt{s_{NN}}}$ = 2.4$\mathbf{GeV}$
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Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Belyaev, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Biernat, J., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Boehmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chernenko, S., Chlad, L., Ciepal, I., Deveaux, C., Dreyer, J., Dybczak, A., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Filip, P., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Froehlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzon, J. A., Gernhaeuser, R., Glaessel, S., Golubeva, M., Greifenhagen, R., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., H��hne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., K��mpfer, B., Karavicheva, T., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Morozov, S., Muentz, C., Muenzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Palka, M., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petukhov, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Reshetin, A., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rathod, N., Rosier, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Selyuzhenkov, I., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Stroebele, H., Stroth, J., Strzempek, P., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Usenko, E., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Wojcik, D., Zanevsky, Y., and Zumbruch, P.
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FOS: Physical sciences ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
We present high-statistic data on charged pion emission from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 2.4 GeV (corresponding to $E_{beam}$ = 1.23 A GeV) in four centrality classes in the range 0 - 40$\%$ of the most central collisions. The data are analyzed as a function of transverse momentum, transverse mass, rapidity, and polar angle. Pion multiplicity per participating nucleon decreases moderately with increasing centrality. The polar angular distributions are found to be non-isotropic even for the most central event class. Our results on pion multiplicity fit well into the general trend of the world data, but undershoot by $2.5 \sigma$ data from the FOPI experiment measured at slightly lower beam energy. We compare our data to state-of-the-art transport model calculations (PHSD, IQMD, PHQMD, GiBUU and SMASH) and find substantial differences between the measurement and the results of these calculations., Comment: 17 pages, 19 figures, 4 tables
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- 2020