Backward emission of protons in Au+Au collisions at 11.7 A

Autor: Daniel S. Zachary, Hideki Hamagaki, M. Gonin, S. Nagamiya, C. Chasman, Shinichi Hayashi, D. P. Morrison, M. J. Tannenbaum, H. Kaneko, W. A. Zajc, Z. Chen, J. Engelage, W. L. Kehoe, Y. Akiba, Ryugo S. Hayano, J. H. van Dijk, H. J. Crawford, R. Seto, Kenta Shigaki, P. Rothschild, D. S. Woodruff, O. Vossnack, Yasuo Miake, T. Sung, J. B. Cumming, H. E. Wegner, R. A. Soltz, S. Gushue, S. Ueno, X. Yang, L. P. Remsberg, S. Tonse, K. Yagi, M. N. Namboodiri, J. H. Kang, L. Ahle, Ole Hansen, H. C. Britt, B. Budick, S. Y. Fung, F. Videbæk, Y. Y. Chu, Brian Cole, J. H. Thomas, R. R. Debbe, K. Kurita, D. R. Beavis, Y. Wang, S. G. Steadman, B. Moskowitz, T. K. Nayak, C. Y. Chi, J.W. Olness, V. Cianciolo, Fuqiang Wang, M. J. LeVine, S. B. Kaufman, T. C. Sangster, J. B. Costales, S. Homma, Y. D. Wu, George Stephans
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Nuclear Physics A. 566:443-446
ISSN: 0375-9474
Popis: We present preliminary results for the emission of target rapidity protons in minimum bias and central 11.7 A.GeV/c Au+Au collisions. The data span the pseudo-rapidity range {vert_bar}{eta}{vert_bar} {le} 0.76 and proton kinetic energy range of 50 {le} E {le} 200 MeV. The slopes of the kinetic energy spectra and dN/d{eta} values for central and minimum bias collisions are strikingly similar. Comparison of the results to results for Si+Au and p+A shows that the shape of the dN/d{eta} distribution is independent of the reaction system or centrality suggesting that the spectator matter does not play a decisive role in determining the shape of the proton distributions at back angles for these systems at AGS energies.
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