Systematic measurements of light vector mesons at RHIC-PHENIX
- Hiroshima University, Japan
- ORNL
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions offer a powerful tool to explore the phase transition between normal nuclear matter and strongly interacting matter governed by partonic degree of freedom. Measurement of light vector mesons such as {phi} and {omega} in heavy-ion collision provides important probes to investigate the property of the partonic matter. The Masses, lifetimes and branching ratios of these mesons are expected to change due to the partial restoration of chiral symmetry in extremely high temperature medium. The PHENIX experiment at RHIC is uniquely suitable for this study because PHENIX has a versatile detector with excellent capabilities to measure electrons and photons as well as hadrons in a wide dynamic range. Systematic studies of multiple decay channels for light vector mesons make it possible to extract important information from the complex physics environment of heavy-ion collision. We will report the latest results of light vector meson measurements for multiple decay channels ({phi} {yields} e{sup -}e{sup +}, K{sup +}K{sup -} and {omega} {yields} e{sup -}e{sup +}, {pi}{sup 0}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}) in various collision systems from proton+proton to Au+Au collisions over several collision energies up to {radical}s{sub NN} = 200 GeV.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 946125
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 20th International Conference on Nucleus Nucleus Collisions/Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India, 20080204, 20080210
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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