System-size and centrality dependence of charged kaon and pion production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at 40A GeV and 158A GeV beam energy

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作者
Anticic, T. [1 ]
Baatar, B. [9 ]
Barna, D. [5 ]
Bartke, J. [7 ]
Beck, H. [10 ]
Betev, L. [11 ]
Bialkowska, H. [20 ]
Blume, C. [10 ]
Bogusz, M. [22 ]
Boimska, B. [20 ]
Book, J. [10 ]
Botje, M. [2 ]
Buncic, P. [11 ]
Cetner, T. [22 ]
Christakoglou, P. [2 ]
Chung, P. [19 ]
Chvala, O. [15 ]
Cramer, J. G. [19 ]
Dinkelaker, P. [10 ]
Eckardt, V. [14 ]
Fodor, Z. [5 ]
Foka, P. [8 ]
Friese, V. [8 ]
Gazdzicki, M. [10 ,12 ]
Grebieszkow, K. [22 ]
Hoehne, C. [8 ]
Kadija, K. [1 ]
Karev, A. [11 ]
Kliemant, M. [10 ]
Kolesnikov, V. I. [9 ]
Kollegger, T. [10 ]
Kowalski, M. [7 ]
Kresan, D. [8 ]
Laszlo, A. [5 ]
Lacey, R. [19 ]
van Leeuwen, M. [2 ]
Lungwitz, B. [10 ]
Mackowiak, M. [22 ]
Makariev, M. [18 ]
Malakhov, A. I. [9 ]
Mateev, M. [17 ]
Melkumov, G. L. [9 ]
Mitrovski, M. [10 ]
Mrowczynski, St [12 ]
Nicolic, V. [1 ]
Palla, G. [5 ]
Panagiotou, A. D. [3 ]
Peryt, W. [22 ]
Pluta, J. [22 ]
Prindle, D. [16 ]
机构
[1] Rudjer Boskovic Inst, Zagreb, Croatia
[2] NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[3] Univ Athens, Dept Phys, Athens, Greece
[4] Eotvos Lorant Univ, Budapest, Hungary
[5] Hungarian Acad Sci, Wigner Res Ctr Phys, Budapest, Hungary
[6] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[7] Polish Acad Sci, H Niewodniczanski Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[8] GSI Helmholtzzentrum Schwerionenforsch, Darmstadt, Germany
[9] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia
[10] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Fachbereich Phys, Frankfurt, Germany
[11] CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[12] Jan Kochanowski Univ, Inst Phys, Kielce, Poland
[13] Univ Marburg, Fachbereich Phys, D-3550 Marburg, Germany
[14] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[15] Charles Univ Prague, Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[16] Univ Washington, Nucl Phys Lab, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[17] Sofia Univ St Kliment Ohridski, Dept Atom Phys, Sofia, Bulgaria
[18] BAS, Inst Nucl Res & Nucl Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria
[19] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Chem, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[20] Inst Nucl Studies, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
[21] Univ Warsaw, Inst Expt Phys, Warsaw, Poland
[22] Warsaw Univ Technol, Fac Phys, Warsaw, Poland
关键词
HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS; STRANGENESS PRODUCTION;
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10.1103/PhysRevC.86.054903
中图分类号
O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
学科分类号
070202 ;
摘要
Measurements of charged pion and kaon production are presented in centrality selected Pb + Pb collisions at 40A GeV and 158A GeV beam energy as well as in semicentral C + C and Si + Si interactions at 40A GeV. Transverse mass spectra, rapidity spectra, and total yields are determined as a function of centrality. The system-size and centrality dependence of relative strangeness production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at 40A GeV and 158A GeV beam energy are derived from the data presented here and from published data for C + C and Si + Si collisions at 158A GeV beam energy. At both energies a steep increase with centrality is observed for small systems followed by a weak rise or even saturation for higher centralities. This behavior is compared to calculations using transport models (ultra-relativistic quantum molecular dynamics and hadron-string dynamics), a percolation model, and the core-corona approach.
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