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An update from STAR - Using strangeness to probe relativistic heavy ion collisions

  • STAR Collaboration
  • Yale University
  • University of Birmingham
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Purdue University
  • Kent State University
  • University of California at Davis
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Institut de Recherches Subatomiques
  • Ohio State University
  • Wayne State University
  • University of Washington
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Rice University
  • SUBATECH
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Academia Sinica - Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Creighton University
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Institute for High Energy Physics

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Abstract

An overview of the strangeness measurements made by the STAR collaboration at RHIC for Au-Au collisions at √SN N = 130 200 GeV plus p-p collisions at √SN N = 200 GeV is presented. A wealth of information has been generated on the kinematics and scale of strange particle production by this experiment. When viewed in combination a picture emerges of particles demonstrating a surprisingly high degree of collective motion, suggestive of strong internal pressure within the source which builds up rapidly. The non-resonance yields are consistent with statistical hadron formation. Although there appears to be a rapid decoupling of the source, resonance particle measurements show signs of rescattering during the hadronic phase. Meanwhile the observed suppression of high momentum probes and their large azimuthal asymmetry indicate that this hot dense matter has significant interactions with particles moving through it.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S61-S73
JournalJournal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Volume30
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2004

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