https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0086-5
Regular Article – Experimental Physics
What can we learn from high-pT correlations of neutral strange baryons and mesons at RHIC?
Physics Department, Yale University, P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, CT, 06520-8120, USA
* e-mail: jana.bielcikova@yale.edu
Received:
11
August
2006
Published online:
28
November
2006
We present results on two-particle azimuthal correlations of neutral strange baryons (Λ, Λ̄) and mesons (KS
0) for pT=2–6 GeV/c associated with non-identified charged particles in d+Au and Au+Au collisions at =200 GeV measured by the STAR experiment. We investigate in detail the associated yield of charged particles as a function centrality of the collision and transverse momentum of trigger and associated particles to look for possible flavor, baryon/meson and particle/anti-particle differences. We compare our results to the proton and pion triggered correlations as well as to a fragmentation and recombination model.
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