Published April 2, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Mid-rapidity φ production in Au+Au collisions at √(SNN)=130 GeV

  • 1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 2. University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 (United States)

Description

We present the first measurement of mid-rapidity φ vector meson production in Au+Au collisions at RHIC (√(sNN)=130 GeV) from the STAR detector. For the 11% most central collisions, the slope parameter from an exponential fit to the transverse mass distribution is T=379±51(stat)±45(syst) MeV, the yield dN/dy=5.73±0.37(stat)±0.57(syst) per event and the ratio Nφ/Nh- is found to be 0.021±0.001(stat)±0.004(syst). We currently place the value of the Nφ/NK- ratio between 0.10 and 0.16. The measured ratios Nφ/Nh- and Nφ/NK-, as well as T for the φ meson at mid-rapidity do not change for the selected centrality bins

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
610
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 532-536
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
International nuclear physics conference on nuclear physics in the 21st century
Acronym
INPC 2001
Dates
30 Jul - 3 Aug 2001
Place
Berkeley, CA (United States)

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Notes
(c) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
Collaborations
STAR Collaboration