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Title: Centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of charged hadron production at intermediate p{sub T} in Au+Au collisions at {radical}(s{sub NN})=130 GeV

Journal Article · · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
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  1. University of Birmingham, Birmingham (United Kingdom)
  2. Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014 (India)
  3. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064 (India); and others

We present STAR measurements of charged hadron production as a function of centrality in Au+Au collisions at {radical}(s{sub NN})=130 GeV. The measurements cover a phase space region of 0.2<p{sub T}<6.0 GeV/c in transverse momentum and -1<{eta}<1 in pseudorapidity. Inclusive transverse momentum distributions of charged hadrons in the pseudorapidity region 0.5< vertical bar {eta} vertical bar <1 are reported and compared to our previously published results for vertical bar {eta} vertical bar <0.5. No significant difference is seen for inclusive p{sub T} distributions of charged hadrons in these two pseudorapidity bins. We measured dN/d{eta} distributions and truncated mean p{sub T} in a region of p{sub T}>p{sub T}{sup cut}, and studied the results in the framework of participant and binary scaling. No clear evidence is observed for participant scaling of charged hadron yield in the measured p{sub T} region. The relative importance of hard scattering processes is investigated through binary scaling fraction of particle production.

OSTI ID:
20695675
Journal Information:
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 70, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.70.044901; (c) 2004 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2813
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English