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Production of mesons and baryons at high rapidity and high pT in proton-proton collisions at s=200GeV

  • I. Arsene*
  • , I. G. Bearden
  • , D. Beavis
  • , S. Bekele
  • , C. Besliu
  • , B. Budick
  • , H. Bøggild
  • , C. Chasman
  • , C. H. Christensen
  • , H. H. Dalsgaard
  • , R. Debbe
  • , J. J. Gaardhøje
  • , K. Hagel
  • , H. Ito
  • , A. Jipa
  • , E. B. Johnson
  • , C. E. Jørgensen
  • , R. Karabowicz
  • , N. Katrynska
  • , E. J. Kim
  • T. M. Larsen, J. H. Lee, S. Lindal, G. Løvhøiden, Z. Majka, M. Murray, J. Natowitz, B. S. Nielsen, C. Nygaard, R. Płaneta, F. Rami, F. Renault, C. Ristea, O. Ristea, D. Röhrich, B. H. Samset, S. J. Sanders, R. A. Scheetz, P. Staszel, T. S. Tveter, F. Videbæk, R. Wada, Z. Yin, H. Yang, I. S. Zgura
*Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Oslo
  • University of Copenhagen
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • University of Kansas
  • University of Bucharest
  • New York University
  • Texas A&M University
  • Jagiellonian University in Kraków
  • Université de Strasbourg
  • University of Bergen
  • Institute of Space Science (ISS)

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Abstract

We present particle spectra for charged hadrons π±, K±, p, and p̄ from pp collisions at s=200GeV measured for the first time at forward rapidities (2.95 and 3.3). The kinematics of these measurements are skewed in a way that probes the small momentum fraction in one of the protons and large fractions in the other. Large proton to pion ratios are observed at values of transverse momentum that extend up to 4GeV/c, where protons have momenta up to 35 GeV. Next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations describe the production of pions and kaons well at these rapidities, but fail to account for the large proton yields and small p̄/p ratios.

Original languageEnglish
Article number252001
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume98
Issue number25
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007.06.21

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