Measurement of transverse energy production with Si and Au beams at relativistic energy: Towards hot and dense hadronic matter

Journal Article · Mon May 17 04:00:00 EDT 1993 · Physical Review Letters; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.2996· OSTI ID:6497147

Barrette, J; Bellwied, R; Bennett, S; Braun-Munzinger, P; Cleland, W E; Cormier, T M; David, G; Dee, J; Diebold, G E; Dietzsch, O; Fox, D; Germani, J V; Gilbert, S; Greene, S V; Hall, J R; Hemmick, T K; Herrmann, N; Hong, B; Jayananda, K; Kraus, D ; Kumar, B S; Lacasse, R; Li, Q; Lissauer, D; Llope, W J; Ludlam, T W; McCorkle, S; Majka, R; Mark, S K; Matheus, R; Mitchell, J T; Muthuswamy, M; O'Brien, E; Panitkin, S; Pruneau, C; Rao, M N; Rosati, M; Rotondo, F; daSilva, N C; Simon-Gillo, J; Sonnadara, U; Stachel, J; Sullivan, J; Takai, H; Takagui, E M; Throwe, T G; Winter, C; Wang, G; Wolf, K L; Wolfe, D; Woody, C L; Xu, N; Zhang, Y; Zhang, Z; Zou, C ^[1]

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1. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States) Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt (Germany) Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States) McGill University, Montreal (Canada) University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New

We present a systematic study of transverse energy ([ital E][sub [ital T]]) production in collisions of 11.4[ital A] GeV/[ital c] Au and 14.6[ital A] GeV/[ital c] Si ions with targets of Al, Au, and Pb. Comparison of data for Au+Au and Si+Al indicates that, for the heavier system, there is an increase in the amount of stopping which is accompanied by a decrease in the width of the [ital dE][sub [ital T]]/[ital d][eta] distribution. The ratio of the maximum [ital E][sub [ital T]] observed for the two systems is significantly greater than the ratio of the total energy available in the center of mass frame.

• OSTI ID: 6497147
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters; (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; (United States) Vol. 70:20; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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