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Title: Measurement of K0S and K*0 in p+p, d+Au, and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt SNN = 200 GeV

Journal Article · · Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics
 [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  2. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). et al.

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has performed a systematic study of K0S and K*0 meson production at midrapidity in p+p, d+Au, and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt SNN = 200 GeV. The K0S and K*0 mesons are reconstructed via their K0S and π0(→γγ)π0 (→γγ) and K*0 → K ± π± decay modes, respectively. The measured transverse-momentum spectra are used to determine the nuclear modification factor of K0S and K*0 mesons in d+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at different centralities. In the d+Au collisions, the nuclear modification factor of K0S and K*0 mesons is almost constant as a function of transverse momentum and is consistent with unity showing that cold-nuclear-matter effects do not play a significant role in the measured kinematic range. In Cu+Cu collisions, within the uncertainties no nuclear modification is registered in peripheral collisions. In central collisions, both mesons show suppression relative to the expectations from the p+p yield scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions in the Cu+Cu system. In the pT range 2–5 GeV/c, the strange mesons ( K0S, K*0) similarly to the Φ meson with hidden strangeness, show an intermediate suppression between the more suppressed light quark mesons (π0) and the nonsuppressed baryons (p, p-bar). At higher transverse momentum, pT > 5 GeV/c, production of all particles is similarly suppressed by a factor of ≈2. (auth)

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Brookhaven, NY (United States). Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Contributing Organization:
PHENIX Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-98CH10886
OSTI ID:
1159734
Report Number(s):
BNL--106189-2014-JA; KB0201021
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics, Journal Name: Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 90; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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