Centrality dependence of K+ and π+ multiplicities from Si + A collisions at 14.6 A GeV/c

T. Abbott; Y. Akiba; D. Beavis; M. A. Bloomer; P. D. Bond; C. Chasman; Z. Chen; Y. Y. Chu; B. A. Cole; J. B. Costales; H. J. Crawford; J. B. Cumming; R. Debbe; J. Engelage; S. Y. Fung; M. Gonin; S. Gushue; H. Hamagaki; O. Hansen; R. S. Hayano; S. Hayashi; S. Homma; H. Z. Huang; Y. Ikeda; I. Juricic; J. Kang; S. Katcoff; S. Kaufman; K. Kimura; K. Kitamura; K. Kurita; R. J. Ledoux; M. J. Le Vine; Y. Miake; R. J. Morse; B. Moskowitz; S. Nagamiya; J. Olness; C. G. Parsons; L. P. Remsberg; H. Sakurai; M. Sarabura; P. Stankus; S. G. Steadman; G. S.F. Stephans; T. Sugitate; M. J. Tannenbaum; J. H. Van Dijk; F. Videbaek; M. Vient; P. Vincent; V. Vutsadakis; H. E. Wegner; D. S. Woodruff; Y. D. Wu; W. Zajc

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(92)91056-F

Centrality dependence of K⁺ and π⁺ multiplicities from Si + A collisions at 14.6 A GeV/c

T. Abbott, Y. Akiba, D. Beavis, M. A. Bloomer, P. D. Bond, C. Chasman, Z. Chen, Y. Y. Chu, B. A. Cole, J. B. Costales, H. J. Crawford, J. B. Cumming, R. Debbe, J. Engelage, S. Y. Fung, M. Gonin, S. Gushue, H. Hamagaki, O. Hansen, R. S. HayanoS. Hayashi, S. Homma, H. Z. Huang, Y. Ikeda, I. Juricic, J. Kang, S. Katcoff, S. Kaufman, K. Kimura, K. Kitamura, K. Kurita, R. J. Ledoux, M. J. Le Vine, Y. Miake, R. J. Morse, B. Moskowitz, S. Nagamiya, J. Olness, C. G. Parsons, L. P. Remsberg, H. Sakurai, M. Sarabura, P. Stankus, S. G. Steadman, G. S.F. Stephans, T. Sugitate, M. J. Tannenbaum, J. H. Van Dijk, F. Videbaek, M. Vient, P. Vincent, V. Vutsadakis, H. E. Wegner, D. S. Woodruff, Y. D. Wu, W. Zajc

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K⁺ and π⁺ multiplicities have been measured in magnetic spectrometer for Si++ Al, Si+ Cu and Si + Au collisions at 14.6 A GeV/c incident momentum. The multiplicities were obtained for five different windows of forward kinetic energy as detected in a zero degree calorimeter. The K⁺/π⁺ multiplicity ratio ranges from ≈9% in peripheral interactions to 19% in central Si+Au. The largest K⁺ / π⁺ ratios are observed for those events for each target that leave the least energy in the zero degree calorimeter and the ratio increases with target mass. The observations suggest that multiple interactions are important in the particle production mechanism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	341-346
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	291
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(92)91056-F
Publication status	Published - 1992 Sept 24

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the expert assistance from the Brookhaven Tandem and AGS operating staffs both in providing the Si beams and in supporting the experiment. This work has been supported by the US Department of Energy under contracts with ANL (W-31-109-ENG-38), BNL (DE-AC02-76CH00016), Columbia University (DE-FG02-86-ER40281), LLNL (W-7405-ENG-48), MIT (DE-AC02-76ER03069), UC Riverside (DE-FG03-86ER40271 ) and by NASA (NGR-05-003-513), under contract with the University of California, and by the US-Japan High Energy Physics Collaboration Treaty.

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Abbott, T., Akiba, Y., Beavis, D., Bloomer, M. A., Bond, P. D., Chasman, C., Chen, Z., Chu, Y. Y., Cole, B. A., Costales, J. B., Crawford, H. J., Cumming, J. B., Debbe, R., Engelage, J., Fung, S. Y., Gonin, M., Gushue, S., Hamagaki, H., Hansen, O., ... Zajc, W. (1992). Centrality dependence of K⁺ and π⁺ multiplicities from Si + A collisions at 14.6 A GeV/c. Physics Letters B, 291(3), 341-346. https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(92)91056-F

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