Charged-particle multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributionsmeasured with the PHOBOS detector in Au+Au, Cu+Cu, d+Au, and p+p collisions at ultra-relativistic energies.
Journal Article
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· Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics)
- Physics
Pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles emitted in Au+Au, Cu+Cu, d+Au, and p+p collisions over a wide energy range have been measured using the PHOBOS detector at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). The centrality dependence of both the charged particle distributions and the multiplicity at midrapidity were measured. Pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles emitted with |{eta}| < 5.4, which account for between 95% and 99% of the total charged-particle emission associated with collision participants, are presented for different collision centralities. Both the midrapidity density dN{sub ch}/d{eta} and the total charged-particle multiplicity N{sub ch} are found to factorize into a product of independent functions of collision energy, {radical}s{sub NN}, and centrality given in terms of the number of nucleons participating in the collision, N{sub part}. The total charged particle multiplicity, observed in these experiments and those at lower energies, assumes a linear dependence of (lns{sub NN}){sup 2} over the full range of collision energy of {radical}s{sub NN} = 2.7-200 GeV.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- SC; NSF; Polish MNiSW Grant; NSC of Taiwan; Hungarian OTKA Grant
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1027710
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/PHY/JA-69182
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics), Journal Name: Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics) Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 83; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
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