https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0088-3
Regular Article – Experimental Physics
Search for the onset of baryon anomaly at RHIC-PHENIX
Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8571, Japan
* e-mail: chujo@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp
Received:
9
August
2006
Published online:
16
November
2006
The baryon production mechanism at the intermediate pT (2–5 GeV/c) at RHIC is still not well understood. The beam energy scan data in Cu+Cu and Au+Au systems at RHIC may provide us a further insight on the origin of the baryon anomaly and its evolution as a function of 
. In 2005 RHIC physics program, the PHENIX experiment accumulated the first intensive low beam energy data in Cu+Cu collisions. We present the preliminary results of identified charged hadron spectra in Cu+Cu at 
and 62.4 GeV using the PHENIX detector. The centrality and beam energy dependences of (anti)proton to pion ratios and the nuclear modification factors for charged pions and (anti)protons are presented.
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