Published August 1, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

The landscape of particle production: results from PHOBOS

  • 1. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000 (United States)
  • 2. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439-4843 (United States)

Description

Recent results from the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC are presented, both from Au+Au collisions from the 2001 run and p+p and d+Au collisions from 2003. The centrality dependence of the total charged-particle multiplicity in p+p and d+Au shows features, such as Npart scaling and limiting fragmentation, similar to p+A collisions at lower energies. Multiparticle physics in Au+Au is found to be local in (pseudo)rapidity, both when observed by HBT correlations and by forward-backward pseudorapidity correlations. The shape of elliptic flow in Au+Au, measured over the full range of pseudorapidity, appears to have a very weak centrality dependence. Identified particle ratios in d+Au reactions show little difference between the shape of proton and anti-proton spectra, while the absolute yields show an approximate mT scaling. Finally, results on RdAu as a function of pseudorapidity show that this ratio decreases monotonically with η, even between 0.2 < η < 1.4

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0954-3899/30/S683/g4_8_006.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics (ISSN 1361-6471) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
Journal Volume
30
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. S683-S691
ISSN
0954-3899
CODEN
JPGPED

Conference

Title
17. international conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions
Acronym
Quark Matter 2004
Dates
11-17 Jan 2004
Place
Oakland, CA (United States)

Optional Information

Collaborations
PHOBOS Collaboration