https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2004-03-1706-3
PS06 High Energy Nuclear Physics
Strangeness production in
GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC
1
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
2
Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
3
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow, Poland
4
Smoluchkowski Inst. of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
5
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 21218, USA
6
New York University, New York 10003, USA
7
Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
8
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 17843, USA
9
Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
10
University of Bucharest, Romania
11
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
12
Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Received:
15
October
2003
Accepted:
9
February
2004
Published online:
26
February
2004
The BRAHMS collaboration has measured identified particle spectra from Au+Au collisions at GeV. Rapidity densities are deduced from fits to the pion and kaon spectra. dN/dy is plotted as a function of rapidity and 4π yields and ratios are calculated. The signed K/π ratios are compared to values obtained at lower energies. We find that K
–/π
– increases monotonically from the AGS and SPS regimes, while K
+/π
+ is similar to what was found at the highest
at SPS.
PACS: 25.75.Dw Particle and resonance production
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