@article{98d63242c26f4a9c8429023416a6a9be,
title = "Nuclear stopping and rapidity loss in Au + Au collisions at sqrt(sN N) = 62.4 GeV",
abstract = "Transverse momentum spectra of protons and anti-protons measured in the rapidity range 0 < y < 3.1 from 0-10% central Au + Au collisions at sqrt(sN N) = 62.4 GeV are presented. The rapidity densities, d N / d y, of protons, anti-protons and net-protons (Np - Nover(p,{\= })) have been deduced from the spectra over a rapidity range wide enough to observe the expected maximum net-baryon density. From mid-rapidity to y = 1 the net-proton yield is roughly constant (d N / d y ∼ 10), but rises to d N / d y ∼ 25 at 2.3 < y < 3.1. The mean rapidity loss is 2.01 ± 0.14 ± 0.12 units from beam rapidity. The measured rapidity distributions are compared to model predictions. Systematics of net-baryon distributions and rapidity loss vs. collision energy are discussed.",
author = "Arsene, {I. C.} and Bearden, {I. G.} and D. Beavis and S. Bekele and C. Besliu and B. Budick and H. B{\o}ggild and C. Chasman and Christensen, {C. H.} and P. Christiansen and Dalsgaard, {H. H.} and R. Debbe and Gaardh{\o}je, {J. J.} and K. Hagel and H. Ito and A. Jipa and Johnson, {E. B.} and J{\o}rgensen, {C. E.} and R. Karabowicz and N. Katrynska and Kim, {E. J.} and Larsen, {T. M.} and Lee, {J. H.} and G. L{\o}vh{\o}iden and Z. Majka and Murray, {M. J.} and J. Natowitz and Nielsen, {B. S.} and C. Nygaard and D. Pal and A. Qviller and F. Rami and C. Ristea and O. Ristea and D. R{\"o}hrich and Sanders, {S. J.} and P. Staszel and Tveter, {T. S.} and F. Videb{\ae}k and R. Wada and H. Yang and Z. Yin and Zgura, {I. S.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the Division of Nuclear Physics of the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy under contracts DE-AC02-98-CH10886, DE-FG03-93-ER40773, DE-FG03-96-ER40981, and DE-FG02-99-ER41121, the Danish Natural Science Research Council, the Research Council of Norway, the Polish Ministry of Science and Information Society Technologies (Grant No. 0383/P03/2005/29), and the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research (5003/1999, 6077/2000). We thank the staff of the Collider-Accelerator Division at BNL for their excellent and dedicated work to deploy RHIC and their support to the experiment.",
year = "2009",
month = jun,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2009.05.049",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "677",
pages = "267--271",
journal = "Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "5",
}