Baryon Stopping in Au+Au and p+p collisions at 62 and 200 GeV

✍ Scribed by Hans Hjersing Dalsgaard

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 363 KB
• Volume: 830
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.10.008

✦ Synopsis

BRAHMS has measured rapidity density distributions of protons and antiprotons in both p+p and Au+Au collisions at 62 GeV and 200 GeV. From these distributions the yields of so-called 'netprotons', that is the difference between the proton and antiproton yields, can be determined. The rapidity dependence of the net-proton yields from peripheral Au+Au collisions is found to have a similar behaviour to that found for the p+p results, while a quite different rapidity dependence is found for central Au+Au collisions. The net-proton distributions can be used together with model calculations to find the net-baryon yields as a function of rapidity, thus yielding information on the average rapidity loss of beam particles, the baryon transport properties of the medium, and the amount of 'stopping' in these collisions. Nuclear Physics A 830 (2009) 841c-844c