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+/π+ ratio, the K -/π- 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 language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | S85-S92 |
Journal | Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics