Charged-particle multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions measured with the PHOBOS detector in Au+Au, Cu+Cu, d+Au, and p+p collisions at ultrarelativistic energies
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Alver, Burak Han
Ballintijn, Maarten
Busza, Wit
Gulbrandsen, K.
Henderson, C.
Kane, J. L.
Katzy, J.
Kulinich, Piotr
Pernegger, H.
Reed, C.
Date Issued
February 2011
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Physical review C
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American Physical Society
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Alver, B. et al. “Charged-particle multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions measured with the PHOBOS detector in Au+Au, Cu+Cu, d+Au, and p+p collisions at ultrarelativistic energies.” Physical Review C 83.2 (2011) : n. pag. ©2011 American Physical Society
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Abstract
Pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles emitted in Au+Au, Cu+Cu, d+Au, and p+p collisions over a wide energy range have been measured using the PHOBOS detector at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). The centrality dependence of both the charged particle distributions and the multiplicity at midrapidity were measured. Pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles emitted with |η|<5.4 [|eta|<5.4], which account for between 95% and 99% of the total charged-particle emission associated with collision participants, are presented for different collision centralities. Both the midrapidity density dNch/dη [dN subscript ch / d eta] and the total charged-particle multiplicity Nch [N subscript ch] are found to factorize into a product of independent functions of collision energy, √sNN [square root of s subscript N N prime], and centrality given in terms of the number of nucleons participating in the collision, Npart [N subscript part]. The total charged particle multiplicity, observed in these experiments and those at lower energies, assumes a linear dependence of (lnsNN)2 [(1n s subscript NN) superscript 2] over the full range of collision energy of √sNN=2.7–200 [square root of S subscript NN + 2.7-200] GeV.
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Bates Linear Accelerator Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.83.024913
