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Rapidity dependent strangeness measurements in BRAHMS experiment at RHIC

  • J. H. Lee*
  • , I. G. Bearden
  • , D. Beavis
  • , C. Besliu
  • , B. Budick
  • , H. Bøggild
  • , C. Chasman
  • , C. H. Christensen
  • , P. Christiansen
  • , J. Cibor
  • , R. Debbe
  • , E. Enger
  • , J. J. Gaardhøje
  • , M. Germinario
  • , K. Hagel
  • , O. Hansen
  • , A. Holm
  • , H. Ito
  • , E. Jakobsen
  • , A. Jipa
  • F. Jundt, J. I. Jørdre, C. E. Jørgensen, R. Karabowicz, E. J. Kim, T. Kozik, T. M. Larsen, J. H. Lee*, Y. K. Lee, G. Løvhøiden, Z. Majka, A. Makeev, M. Mikelsen, M. Murray, J. Natowitz, B. S. Nielsen, J. Norris, K. Olchanski, J. Olness, D. Ouerdane, R. Płeneta, F. Rami, C. Ristea, D. Röhrich, B. H. Samset, D. Sandberg, S. J. Sanders, P. Staszel, T. S. Tveter, F. Videbæk, R. Wada, A. Wieloch, Z. Yin, I. S. Zgura
*Corresponding author for this work
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Bucharest
  • New York University
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • University of Oslo
  • Texas A&M University
  • University of Kansas
  • Université de Strasbourg
  • University of Bergen
  • Jagiellonian University in Kraków
  • Johns Hopkins University

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Abstract

Particle production of charged kaons in central Au+Au collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV has been studied as a function of rapidity by the BRAHMS collaboration at RHIC. The kaon spectral shapes are described well by an exponential in transverse mass for the rapidity range of 0 ≤ y K ≤ 3.3 with smoothly decreasing inverse slopes as the rapidity increases. For the charged kaon to pion ratios, while there is no significant rapidity dependence for the K++ ratio, the K -- ratio shows a significant decrease from y ≈ 1 towards higher rapidities. The systematics of K-/K+ and p̄/p ratios in the measured rapidity range demonstrates a strongly correlated behaviour which can be described by thermal-statistical models.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S85-S92
JournalJournal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Volume30
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004.01

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