DOI 10.1007/s100529800867
Charged particle production in proton-, deuteron-, oxygen-
and sulphur-nucleus collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon
The NA35 Collaboration:
T. Alber10 - H. Appelshäuser6 - J. Bächler5 -
J. Bartke4 - H. Biakowska12 - M.A. Bloomer3 -
R. Bock5 - W.J. Braithwaite10 - D. Brinkmann6 -
R. Brockmann5 - P. Buncic5 - P. Chan10 -
J.G. Cramer10 - P.B. Cramer10 - I. Derado9 -
B. Eberlein6 -
V. Eckardt9 - J. Eschke6 - C. Favuzzi2 - D. Ferenc13 -
B. Fleischmann5 - P. Foka5 - P. Freund9 - M. Fuchs6 -
M. Gazdzicki6 - E. G
adysz4 - J. Grebieszkow11 -
J. Günther6 -
J.W. Harris3 - M. Hoffmann7 -
P. Jacobs3 - S. Kabana6 - K. Kadija9,13 - R. Keidel8 -
M. Kowalski4 - A. Kühmichel6 - F. Lave6 -
J.Y. Lee6 - A. Ljubicic jr.13 -
S. Margetis3 - J.T. Mitchell3 - R. Morse3 -
E. Nappi2 - G. Odyniec3 - G. Paic5,13 -
A.D. Panagiotou1 - A. Petridis1 - A. Piper8 -
F. Posa2 - A.M. Poskanzer3 -
F. Pühlhofer8 -
W. Rauch9 - R. Renfordt6 - W. Retyk11 - D. Röhrich6 -
G. Roland6 - H. Rothard6 - K. Runge7 -
A. Sandoval5 - N. Schmitz9 -
E. Schmoetten7 - R. Sendelbach6 -
P. Seyboth9 - J. Seyerlein9 -
E. Skrzypczak11 - P. Spinelli2 -
R. Stock6 - H. Ströbele6 -
L. Teitelbaum3 - S. Tonse3 -
T.A. Trainor10 - G. Vasileiadis1 - M. Vassiliou1 -
G. Vesztergombi9 - D. Vranic13 - S. Wenig6 - B. Wosiek9,4 -
X. Zhu10
1 Department of Physics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
2 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari and INFN Bari, Bari, Italy
3 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
4 Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Poland
5 Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany
6 Fachbereich Physik der Universität, Frankfurt, Germany (IKF)
7 Fakultät für Physik der Universität, Freiburg, Germany
8 Fachbereich Physik der Universität, Marburg, Germany
9 Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany
10 University of Washington, Seattle, USA
11 Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
12 Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
13 Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb
Received: 28 October 1997 / Published online: 10 March 1998
Abstract
The transverse momentum and rapidity distributions of net
protons and negatively charged hadrons have been measured for
minimum bias proton-nucleus and deuteron-gold interactions, as well as
central oxygen-gold and
sulphur-nucleus collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon.
The rapidity density of net protons at midrapidity in central
nucleus-nucleus collisions increases both with target mass for sulphur
projectiles and with the projectile mass for a gold target.
The shape of the rapidity distributions of net protons forward of
midrapidity for d+Au and central S+Au collisions is similar.
The average rapidity loss is larger than 2 units of rapidity for
reactions with the gold target.
The transverse momentum spectra of net protons for all reactions
can be described
by a thermal distribution with `temperatures' between MeV
(p+S interactions) and
MeV (central S+Au collisions).
The multiplicity of negatively charged hadrons increases with the
mass of the colliding system.
The shape of the transverse momentum spectra of negatively
charged hadrons changes from minimum bias p+p and p+S interactions to
p+Au and central nucleus-nucleus collisions. The mean transverse
momentum is almost constant in the vicinity of midrapidity and
shows little variation with the target and projectile masses.
The average number of produced negatively charged hadrons per participant
baryon increases slightly from p+p, p+A to central S+S,Ag collisions.
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