Identified particle production, azimuthal anisotropy, and interferometry measurements in Au+Au collisions at [sqrt]sNN=9.2 GeV
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Surrow, Bernd; Balewski, Jan T.; Betancourt, Michael Joseph; Hays-Wehle, James Prewitt; Jones, Christopher LaDon; Kocoloski, Adam Philip; Leight, William Axel; Sakuma, Tai; Seele, Joseph Patrick; Stephans, George S. F.; Corliss, Ross Cameron; Hoffman, Alan Michael; Milner, Richard G; Redwine, Robert P; van Nieuwenhuizen, Gerrit J; Walker, Matthew H; ... Show more Show less
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Identified particle production, azimuthal anisotropy, and interferometry measurements in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=9.2 GeV
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We present the first measurements of identified hadron production, azimuthal anisotropy, and pion interferometry from Au+Au collisions below the nominal injection energy at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) facility. The data were collected using the large acceptance solenoidal tracker at RHIC (STAR) detector at √sNN=9.2 GeV from a test run of the collider in the year 2008. Midrapidity results on multiplicity density dN/dy in rapidity y, average transverse momentum 〈pT〉, particle ratios, elliptic flow, and Hanbury-Brown–Twiss (HBT) radii are consistent with the corresponding results at similar √sNN from fixed-target experiments. Directed flow measurements are presented for both midrapidity and forward-rapidity regions. Furthermore the collision centrality dependence of identified particle dN/dy, 〈pT〉, and particle ratios are discussed. These results also demonstrate that the capabilities of the STAR detector, although optimized for √sNN=200 GeV, are suitable for the proposed QCD critical-point search and exploration of the QCD phase diagram at RHIC.
Date issued
2010-02Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of ScienceJournal
Physical Review C
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American Physical Society
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STAR Collaboration et al. “Identified particle production, azimuthal anisotropy, and interferometry measurements in Au+Au collisions at [sqrt]sNN=9.2 GeV.” Physical Review C 81.2 (2010): 024911. © 2010 American Physical Society.
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0556-2813