K(892)* resonance production in Au+Au and p+p collisions at sqrt[sNN]=200GeV
The short-lived K(892)* resonance provides an efficient tool to probe properties of the hot and dense medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We report measurements of K* in sqrt[sNN]=200GeV Au+Au and p+p collisions reconstructed via its hadronic decay channels K(892)*0-->K pi and K(892)*±-->K0S pi ± using the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The K*0 mass has been studied as a function of pT in minimum bias p+p and central Au+Au collisions. The K*pT spectra for minimum bias p+p interactions and for Au+Au collisions in different centralities are presented. The K*/K yield ratios for all centralities in Au+Au collisions are found to be significantly lower than the ratio in minimum bias p+p collisions, indicating the importance of hadronic interactions between chemical and kinetic freeze-outs. A significant nonzero K*0 elliptic flow (v2) is observed in Au+Au collisions and is compared to the K0S and Lambda v2. The nuclear modification factor of K* at intermediate pT is similar to that of K0S but different from Lambda . This establishes a baryon-meson effect over a mass effect in the particle production at intermediate pT (2<pT <= 4GeV/c).
| Author: | J. Adams, Jens Berger, Thomas Dietel, Thorsten Kollegger, Jens Sören Lange, Reinhard Stock, et al., STAR Collaboration |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-19132 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 14.10.2005 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Source: | Phys. Rev. C 71, 064902 (2005), ©2005 The American Physical Society, http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v71/e064902 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 188860150 |
| Institutes: | Physik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 530 Physik |
| PACS-Classification: | 13.75.Cs Nucleon-nucleon interactions (including antinucleons, deuterons, etc.) (for <i>N</i>-<i>N</i> interactions in nuclei, see 21.30.-x) |
| 25.75.Dw Particle and resonance production | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): | Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |





