Charged particle production in proton-, deuteron-, oxygen- and sulphur-nucleus collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon |
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Authors: | T Alber |
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Institution: | (1) University of Washington, Seattle, USA , US |
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Abstract: | The transverse momentum and rapidity distributions of net protons and negatively charged hadrons have been measured for minimum
bias proton–nucleus and deuteron–gold interactions, as well as central oxygen–gold and sulphur–nucleus collisions at 200 GeV
per nucleon. The rapidity density of net protons at midrapidity in central nucleus–nucleus collisions increases both with
target mass for sulphur projectiles and with the projectile mass for a gold target. The
shape of the rapidity distributions of net protons forward of midrapidity for d+Au and central S+Au collisions is similar.
The average rapidity loss is larger than 2 units of rapidity for reactions with the gold target. The transverse momentum spectra
of net protons for all reactions can be described by a thermal distribution with ‘temperatures’ between MeV (p+S interactions) and MeV (central S+Au collisions). The multiplicity of negatively charged hadrons increases with the mass of the colliding system.
The shape of the transverse momentum spectra of negatively charged hadrons changes from minimum bias p+p and p+S interactions
to p+Au and central nucleus-nucleus collisions. The mean transverse momentum is almost constant in the vicinity of midrapidity
and shows little variation with the target and projectile masses. The average number of produced negatively charged hadrons
per participant baryon increases slightly from p+p, p+A to central S+S,Ag collisions.
Received: 28 October 1997 / Published online: 10 March 1998 |
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