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Energy and system size dependence of ϕ meson production in Cu + Cu and Au + Au collisions

  • B. I. Abelev
  • , M. M. Aggarwal
  • , Z. Ahammed
  • , B. D. Anderson
  • , D. Arkhipkin
  • , G. S. Averichev
  • , Y. Bai
  • , J. Balewski
  • , O. Barannikova
  • , L. S. Barnby
  • , J. Baudot
  • , S. Baumgart
  • , D. R. Beavis
  • , R. Bellwied
  • , F. Benedosso
  • , M. J. Betancourt
  • , R. R. Betts
  • , S. Bharadwaj
  • , A. Bhasin
  • , A. K. Bhati
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Abstract

We study the beam-energy and system-size dependence of φ{symbol} meson production (using the hadronic decay mode φ{symbol} → K+ K-) by comparing the new results from Cu + Cu collisions and previously reported Au + Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 62.4 and 200 GeV measured in the STAR experiment at RHIC. Data presented in this Letter are from mid-rapidity (| y | < 0.5) for 0.4 < pT < 5 GeV / c. At a given beam energy, the transverse momentum distributions for φ{symbol} mesons are observed to be similar in yield and shape for Cu + Cu and Au + Au colliding systems with similar average numbers of participating nucleons. The φ{symbol} meson yields in nucleus-nucleus collisions, normalized by the average number of participating nucleons, are found to be enhanced relative to those from p + p collisions. The enhancement for φ{symbol} mesons lies between strange hadrons having net strangeness =1 (K- and over(Λ, ̄)) and net strangeness =2 (Ξ). The enhancement for φ{symbol} mesons is observed to be higher at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV compared to 62.4 GeV. These observations for the produced φ{symbol} (s over(s, ̄)) mesons clearly suggest that, at these collision energies, the source of enhancement of strange hadrons is related to the formation of a dense partonic medium in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions and cannot be alone due to canonical suppression of their production in smaller systems.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)183-191
Number of pages9
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume673
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 23 2009

Keywords

  • Canonical suppression
  • Particle production
  • Quark-gluon plasma
  • Resonances
  • Strangeness enhancement

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