Baryon distributions and meson production in Au+Au at 11.6 solA·GeV c. first particle spectra from E-866

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

A gold beam (11.6 A·GeV/c) was delivered to experiments at Brookhaven's Tandem-AGS-Booster facility in April 1992, providing the unique opportunity to achieve in a nuclear reaction high baryon densities. It now possible to study ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions over a wide range of projectile and target masses. The data presented here are from the experiments E-866 and E-802. The first E-866 measurements [1] using the Au beam were made with existing E-802 spectrometer [2]. For E-866, an upgraded forward calorimeter has provided a hardware centrality trigger corresponding to EZCAL ≤ 400 GeV, with the beam kinetic energy being EBEAM = 2108 GeV. Software cuts on ezcal were used to define roughly the upper 4% of the total cross section and referred to as central Au+Au collisions. Beside the statistical errors presented here, a systematic error of (10-15)% has to be applied for each result.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)601-604
Number of pages4
JournalNuclear Physics A
Volume566
Issue numberC
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Jan 1994
Externally publishedYes

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Baryon distributions and meson production in Au+Au at 11.6 solA·GeV c. first particle spectra from E-866'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this