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φ Meson production in Au + Au and p + p collisions at sNN = 200GeV

  • J. Adams
  • , C. Adler
  • , M. M. Aggarwal
  • , Z. Ahammed
  • , J. Amonett
  • , B. D. Anderson
  • , D. Arkhipkin
  • , G. S. Averichev
  • , S. K. Badyal
  • , J. Balewski
  • , O. Barannikova
  • , L. S. Barnby
  • , J. Baudot
  • , S. Bekele
  • , V. V. Belaga
  • , R. Bellwied
  • , J. Berger
  • , B. I. Bezverkhny
  • , S. Bhardwaj
  • , A. K. Bhati
  • H. Bichsel, A. Billmeier, L. C. Bland, C. O. Blyth, B. E. Bonner, M. Botje, A. Boucham, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, R. V. Cadman, X. Z. Cai, H. Caines, M. Calderón De La Barca Sánchez, J. Carroll, J. Castillo, D. Cebra, P. Chaloupka, S. Chattopadhyay, H. F. Chen, Y. Chen, S. P. Chernenko, M. Cherney, A. Chikanian, W. Christie, J. P. Coffin, T. M. Cormier, J. G. Cramer, H. J. Crawford, D. Das, S. Das, A. A. Derevschikov, L. Didenko, T. Dietel, W. J. Dong, X. Dong, J. E. Draper, F. Du, A. K. Dubey, V. B. Dunin, J. C. Dunlop, M. R. Dutta Majumdar, V. Eckardt, L. G. Efimov, V. Emelianov, J. Engelage, G. Eppley, B. Erazmus, M. Estienne, P. Fachini, V. Faine, J. Faivre, R. Fatemi, K. Filimonov, P. Filip, E. Finch, Y. Fisyak, D. Flierl, K. J. Foley, J. Fu, C. A. Gagliardi, N. Gagunashvili, J. Gans, M. S. Ganti, L. Gaudichet, M. Germain, F. Geurts, V. Ghazikhanian, P. Ghosh, J. E. Gonzalez, O. Grachov, O. Grebenyuk, S. Gronstal, D. Grosnick, M. Guedon, S. M. Guertin, A. Gupta, T. D. Gutierrez, T. J. Hallman, A. Hamed, D. Hardtke, J. W. Harris, M. Heinz, T. W. Henry, S. Heppelmann, B. Hippolyte, A. Hirsch, E. Hjort, G. W. Hoffmann, M. Horsley, H. Z. Huang, S. L. Huang, E. Hughes, T. J. Humanic, G. Igo, A. Ishihara, P. Jacobs, W. W. Jacobs, M. Janik, H. Jiang, I. Johnson, P. G. Jones, E. G. Judd, S. Kabana, M. Kaplan, D. Keane, V. Yu Khodyrev, J. Kiryluk, A. Kisiel, J. Klay, S. R. Klein, A. Klyachko, D. D. Koetke, T. Kollegger, M. Kopytine, L. Kotchenda, A. D. Kovalenko, M. Kramer, P. Kravtsov, V. I. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, C. Kuhn, A. I. Kulikov, A. Kumar, G. J. Kunde, C. L. Kunz, R. Kh Kutuev, A. A. Kuznetsov, M. A.C. Lamont, J. M. Landgraf, S. Lange, B. Lasiuk, F. Laue, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednický, M. J. Levine, C. Li, Q. Li, S. J. Lindenbaum, M. A. Lisa, F. Liu, L. Liu, Z. Liu, Q. J. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W. J. Llope, H. Long, R. S. Longacre, M. Lopez-Noriega, W. A. Love, T. Ludlam, D. Lynn, J. Ma, Y. G. Ma, D. Magestro, S. Mahajan, L. K. Mangotra, D. P. Mahapatra, R. Majka, R. Manweiler, S. Margetis, C. Markert, L. Martin, J. Marx, H. S. Matis, Yu A. Matulenko, C. J. McClain, T. S. McShane, F. Meissner, Yu Melnick, A. Meschanin, M. L. Miller, Z. Milosevich, N. G. Minaev, C. Mironov, A. Mischke, D. Mishra, J. Mitchell, B. Mohanty, L. Molnar, C. F. Moore, M. J. Mora-Corral, D. A. Morozov, V. Morozov, M. M. De Moura, M. G. Munhoz, B. K. Nandi, S. K. Nayak, T. K. Nayak, J. M. Nelson, P. K. Netrakanti, V. A. Nikitin, L. V. Nogach, B. Norman, S. B. Nurushev, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, V. Okorokov, M. Oldenburg, D. Olson, G. Paic, S. K. Pal, Y. Panebratsev, S. Y. Panitkin, A. I. Pavlinov, T. Pawlak, T. Peitzmann, V. Perevoztchikov, C. Perkins, W. Peryt, V. A. Petrov, S. C. Phatak, R. Picha, M. Planinic, J. Pluta, N. Porile, J. Porter, A. M. Poskanzer, M. Potekhin, E. Potrebenikova, B. V.K.S. Potukuchi, D. Prindle, C. Pruneau, J. Putschke, G. Rai, G. Rakness, R. Raniwala, S. Raniwala, O. Ravel, R. L. Ray, S. V. Razin, D. Reichhold, J. G. Reid, G. Renault, F. Retiere, A. Ridiger, H. G. Ritter, J. B. Roberts, O. V. Rogachevski, J. L. Romero, A. Rose, C. Roy, L. J. Ruan, R. Sahoo, I. Sakrejda, S. Salur, J. Sandweiss, I. Savin, J. Schambach, R. P. Scharenberg, N. Schmitz, L. S. Schroeder, K. Schweda, J. Seger, P. Seyboth, E. Shahaliev, M. Shao, W. Shao, M. Sharma, K. E. Shestermanov, S. S. Shimanskii, R. N. Singaraju, F. Simon, G. Skoro, N. Smirnov, R. Snellings, G. Sood, P. Sorensen, J. Sowinski, H. M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T. D.S. Stanislaus, R. Stock, A. Stolpovsky, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, C. Struck, A. A.P. Suaide, E. Sugarbaker, C. Suire, M. Šumbera, B. Surrow, T. J.M. Symons, A. Szanto De Toledo, P. Szarwas, A. Tai, J. Takahashi, A. H. Tang, D. Thein, J. H. Thomas, S. Timoshenko, M. Tokarev, M. B. Tonjes, T. A. Trainor, S. Trentalange, R. E. Tribble, O. Tsai, T. Ullrich, D. G. Underwood, G. Van Buren, A. M. Vandermolen, R. Varma, I. Vasilevski, A. N. Vasiliev, S. E. Vigdor, Y. P. Viyogi, S. A. Voloshin, M. Vznuzdaev, W. Waggoner, F. Wang, G. Wang, G. Wang, X. L. Wang, Y. Wang, Z. M. Wang, H. Ward, J. W. Watson, J. C. Webb, R. Wells, G. D. Westfall, C. Whitten, H. Wieman, R. Willson, S. W. Wissink, R. Witt, J. Wood, J. Wu, N. Xu, Z. Xu, Z. Z. Xu, E. Yamamoto, P. Yepes, V. I. Yurevich, B. Yuting, Y. V. Zanevski, H. Zhang, W. M. Zhang, Z. P. Zhang, Z. P. Zhaomin, Z. P. Zizong, P. A. Zołnierczuk, R. Zoulkarneev, J. Zoulkarneeva, A. N. Zubarev
  • University of Birmingham
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Panjab University
  • Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre India
  • Kent State University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Jammu
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Purdue University
  • Institut de Recherches Subatomiques
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  • Wayne State University
  • Yale University
  • University of Rajasthan
  • University of Washington
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Rice University
  • National Institute for Subatomic Physics
  • SUBATECH
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Academia Sinica - Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • University of California at Davis
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Creighton University
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • Central China Normal University
  • Texas A&M University
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  • Warsaw University of Technology
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  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • University of Zagreb
  • Michigan State University
  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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Abstract

We report the STAR measurement of φ meson production in Au+Au and p+p collisions at sNN=200GeV. Using the event mixing technique, the φ spectra and yields are obtained at mid-rapidity for five centrality bins in Au+Au collisions and for non-singly-diffractive p+p collisions. It is found that the φ transverse momentum distributions from Au+Au collisions are better fitted with a single-exponential while the p+p spectrum is better described by a double-exponential distribution. The measured nuclear modification factors indicate that φ production in central Au+Au collisions is suppressed relative to peripheral collisions when scaled by the number of binary collisions (〈Nbin〉). The systematics of 〈pt〉 versus centrality and the constant φ/K- ratio versus beam species, centrality, and collision energy rule out kaon coalescence as the dominant mechanism for φ production.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)181-189
Number of pages9
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume612
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 21 2005

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