Baryon Rapidity Loss in Relativistic Au+Au Collisions
Nuclear Experiment
2010-01-11 v3
Abstract
An excitation function of proton rapidity distributions for different centralities is reported from AGS Experiment E917 for Au+Au collisions at 6, 8, and 10.8 GeV/nucleon. The rapidity distributions from peripheral collisions have a valley at midrapidity which smoothly change to distributions that peak at midrapidity for central collisions. The mean rapidity loss increases with increasing beam energy, whereas the fraction of protons consistent with isotropic emission from a thermal source at midrapidity decreases with increasing beam energy.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0003007,
title = {Baryon Rapidity Loss in Relativistic Au+Au Collisions},
author = {E917 Collaboration and B. B. Back and R. R. Betts and J. Chang and W. C. Chang and C. Y. Chi and Y. Y. Chu and J. B. Cumming and J. C. Dunlop and W. Eldredge and S. Y. Fung and R. Ganz and E. Garcia-Solis and A. Gillitzer and G. Heintzelman and W. F. Henning and D. J. Hofman and B. Holzman and J. H. Kang and E. J. Kim and S. Y. Kim and Y. Kwon and D. McLeod and A. C. Mignerey and M. Moulson and V. Nanal and C. A. Ogilvie and R. Pak and A. Ruangma and D. E. Russ and R. K. Seto and P. J. Stanskas and G. S. F. Stephans and H. Q. Wang and F. L. H. Wolfs and A. H. Wuosmaa and H. Xiang and G. H. Xu and H. B. Yao and C. M. Zou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0003007},
year = {2010}
}
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9 pages, 3 figures, 1 table replaced version has figures rotated