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Charged-particle rapidity density in Au+Au collisions in a quark combination model

Journal Article · · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
 [1]; ;  [2]
  1. Department of Physics, Qufu Normal University, Shandong 273165 (China)
  2. Department of Physics, Shandong University, Shandong 250100 (China)
Rapidity/pseudorapidity densities for charged particles and their centrality, rapidity, and energy dependence in Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider are studied in a quark combination model. Using a Gaussian-type rapidity distribution for constituent quarks as a result of Landau hydrodynamic evolution, the data at {radical}(s{sub NN})=130,200 GeV at various centralities in full pseudorapidity range are well described, and the charged-particle multiplicities are reproduced as functions of the number of participants. The energy dependence of the shape of the dN{sub ch}/d{eta} distribution is also described at various collision energies {radical}(s{sub NN})=200,130,62.4 GeV in central collisions with same value of parameters except 19.6 GeV. The calculated rapidity distributions and yields for the charged pions and kaons in central Au+Au collisions at {radical}(s{sub NN})=200 GeV are compared with experimental data of the BRAHMS Collaboration.
OSTI ID:
20995153
Journal Information:
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Journal Name: Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 75; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English