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Measurement of neutral mesons in p plus p collisions at root s=200 GeV and scaling properties of hadron production
Physical Review D
  • Andrew Adare, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Nathan C. Grau, Iowa State University
  • John C. Hill, Iowa State University
  • Todd Kempel, Iowa State University
  • John G. Lajoie, Iowa State University
  • Alexandre Lebedev, Iowa State University
  • Craig Ogilvie, Iowa State University
  • H. Pei, Iowa State University
  • Marzia Rosati, Iowa State University
  • Alexey Yu. Semenov, Iowa State University
  • S. Skutnik, Iowa State University
  • Carla Vale, Iowa State University
  • Feng Wei, Iowa State University
  • et al.
  • PHENIX Collaboration, PHENIX Collaboration
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
3-16-2011
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.83.052004
Abstract
The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured the invariant differential cross section for production of K-S(0), omega, eta', and phi mesons in p + p collisions at root s 200 GeV. Measurements of omega and phi production in different decay channels give consistent results. New results for the omega are in agreement with previously published data and extend the measured p(T) coverage. The spectral shapes of all hadron transverse momentum distributions measured by PHENIX are well described by a Tsallis distribution functional form with only two parameters, n and T, determining the high-p(T) and characterizing the low-p(T) regions of the spectra, respectively. The values of these parameters are very similar for all analyzed meson spectra, but with a lower parameter T extracted for protons. The integrated invariant cross sections calculated from the fitted distributions are found to be consistent with existing measurements and with statistical model predictions.
Comments

This article is published as Adare, A., S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Yasuyuki Akiba, H. Al-Bataineh, J. Alexander et al. "Measurement of neutral mesons in p+ p collisions at s= 200 GeV and scaling properties of hadron production." Physical Review D 83, no. 5 (2011): 052004. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.83.052004. Posted with permission.

Copyright Owner
American Physical Society
Language
en
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application/pdf
Citation Information
Andrew Adare, Nathan C. Grau, John C. Hill, Todd Kempel, et al.. "Measurement of neutral mesons in p plus p collisions at root s=200 GeV and scaling properties of hadron production" Physical Review D Vol. 83 Iss. 5 (2011) p. 052004
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/craig-ogilvie/184/