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Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Afanasiev, Sergey V. ; Alber, Thomas ; Appelshäuser, Harald ; Bächler, Joachim ; Bailey, Stephen John ; Barnby, Lee Stuart ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Białkowska, Helena ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Bock, Rudolf ; Bormann, Christian ; Brady, Franklin Paul ; Brockmann, Robert ; Buncic, Nenad ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chan, P. ; Cooper, Glenn E. ; Cramer, John G. ; Cramer, Pauline B. ; Csató, Péter ; Dietz, Oliver ; Dunn, Jason ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eckhardt, Frank ; Ferguson, M. I. ; Fischer, Hans Gerhard ; Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Fuchs, M. ; Gabler, Frank ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Grebieszkow, Jaroslaw ; Günther, Jörg ; Harris, John W. ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Henkel, Torsten ; Hill, L. A. ; Huang, Isaac ; Howe, Mark A. ; Hümmler, Holm Gero ; Igo, George J. ; Irmscher, Detlef ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Konashenok, Anton ; Kowalski, Marek ; Lasiuk, Brian ; Lévai, Péter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Mock, Andreas ; Molnár, József ; Nelson, John M. ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Piper, Andreas ; Porter, R. Jefferson ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Poziombka, Stefan ; Prindle, Duncan J. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Rauch, Wolfgang Hans ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Roland, Christof ; Roland, Gunther ; Rudolph, Heinrich ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sakrejda, Iwona ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Semenov, Alexei Yu. ; Schäfer, Erich ; Schmischke, Dirk ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schönfelder, Stefan ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Squier, Gordon Thomas Anderson ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Szentpétery, Imre ; Sziklai, János ; Toy, Milton Y. ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wang, Feipeng ; Weerasundara, Dhammika D. ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Wienold, Thomas ; Wood, Lindsay ; Yates, Tim A. ; Zimányi, József ; Zhu, Xue-Zhou ; Zybert, Ryszard
Using the NA49 main TPC, the central production of hyperons has been measured in CERN SPS Pb - Pb collisions at 158 GeV c-1. The preliminary ratio, studied at 2.0 < y < 2.6 and 1 < pT < 3 GeV c-1, equals ~ (13 ± 4)% (systematic error only). It is compatible, within errors, with the previously obtained ratios for central S + S [1], S + W [2], and S + Au [3] collisions. The fit to the transverse momentum distribution resulted in an inverse slope parameter T of 297 MeV. At this level of statistics we do not see any noticeable enhancement of hyperon production with the increased volume (and, possibly, degree of equilibration) of the system from S + S to Pb + Pb. This result is unexpected and counterintuitive, and should be further investigated. If confirmed, it will have a significant impact on our understanding of mechanisms leading to the enhanced strangeness production in heavy-ion collisions.
Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adkins, J. Kevin ; Agakishiev, Geydar ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Alekseev, Igor G. ; Alford, J. ; Anson, Christopher Daniel ; Aparin, Alexey ; Arkhipkin, Dmitry A. ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Averichev, Georgy S. ; Banerjee, A. ; Beavis, Dana Richard ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bhati, Ashok Kumar ; Bhattarai, P. ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Bland, Leslie C. ; Bordyuzhin, Igor G. ; Borowski, W. ; Bouchet, Jonathan ; Brandin, Andrei V. ; Brovko, Samantha G. ; Bültmann, Stephen L. ; Bunzarov, Ivan ; Burton, T.P. ; Butterworth, Joseph ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Campbell, J.M. ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Cendejas, R. ; Cervantes, M.C. ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chang, Z. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chen, H.F. ; Chen, J.H. ; Chen, L. ; Cheng, J. ; Cherney, Michael Gerard ; Chikanian, Alexei ; Christie, William ; Codrington, M.J.M. ; Contin, Giacomo ; Cramer, John G. ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Cui, X. ; Das, Supriya ; Davila Leyva, A. ; De Silva, L.C. ; Debbe, R.R. ; Dedovič, Tatiana G. ; Deng, J. ; Derevschikov, Anatoly A. ; Souza, Rafael Derradi de ; di Ruzza, Benedetto ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dilks, Christopher ; Ding, F. ; Djawotho, P. ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Draper, James E. ; Du, C.M. ; Dunkelberger, Lloyd Edward ; Dunlop, James C. ; Efimov, Leonid G. ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Engle, K.S. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Eun, L. ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Fedorišin, Jan ; Filip, Peter ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Flores, C.E. ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Gangadharan, Dhevan Raja ; Garand, David ; Geurts, Frank ; Gibson, Adam ; Girard, M. ; Gliske, S. ; Greiner, Leo Clifford ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gunarathne, D.S. ; Guo, Y. ; Gupta, Anik ; Gupta, S. ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Haag, B. ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Han, L-X. ; Haque, R. ; Harris, John W. ; Heppelmann, Steven Francis ; Hirsch, Andrew S. ; Hoffmann, Gerald W. ; Hofman, D.J. ; Horvat, S. ; Huang, B. ; Huang, H.Z. ; Huang, X. ; Huck, Patrick ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Igo, George J. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jang, H. ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kechechyan, Armen ; Kesich, A. ; Khan, Z.H. ; Kikola, D.P. ; Kisel, Ivan ; Kisiel, Adam Ryszard ; Koetke, Donald D. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Konzer, J. ; Koralt, I. ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kotchenda, L. ; Kraishan, A.F. ; Kravtsov, Peter ; Krueger, Keith William ; Kulakov, Igor ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Kycia, R.A. ; Lamont, Matthew A. C. ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Landry, K.D. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lednicky, Richard ; Lee, J.H. ; Li, C. ; Li, W. ; Li, Xiaomei ; Li, Xiaomei ; Li, Y. ; Li, Z.M. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, F. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Lomnitz, Michael ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Luo, X. ; Ma, G.L. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Mahapatra, D.P. ; Majka, Richard Daniel ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Masui, H. ; Matis, Howard S. ; McDonald, Daniel ; McShane, Tom S. ; Minaev, Nikolai G. ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mondal, Mriganka Mouli ; Morozov, Dmitry A. ; Mustafa, M.K. ; Nandi, Basanta Kumar ; Nasim, Md. ; Nayak, Tapan Kumar ; Nelson, John M. ; Nigmatkulov, Grigory A. ; Nogach, Larisa V. ; Noh, S.Y. ; Novak, J. ; Nurušev, Sandibek B. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, Kunsu ; Ohlson, Alice ; Okorokov, Vitaly A. ; Oldag, E.W. ; Olvitt, D.L. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pan, Y.X. ; Pandit, Y. ; Panebratsev, Yuri ; Pawlak, Tomasz Jan ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pei, Hua ; Perkins, Chris ; Pile, P. ; Planinic, Mirko ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Poljak, Nikola ; Poniatowska, K. ; Porter, Jeffrey Brent ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Przybycien, Mariusz ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Qiu, H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Ramachandran, Suvarna ; Raniwala, Rashmi ; Raniwala, Sudhir ; Ray, Robert L. ; Riley, C.K. ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Roberts, Jabus B. ; Rogačevskij, Oleg V. ; Romero, Juan L. ; Ross, J.F. ; Roy, Ankhi ; Ruan, Lijuan ; Rusnak, Jan ; Rusnakova, Olga ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sahu, Pradip Kumar ; Sakrejda, Iwona ; Salur, Sevil ; Sandacz, Andrzej ; Sandweiss, Jack H. ; Sangaline, Evan ; Sarkar, Amal ; Schambach, Joachim ; Scharenberg, Rolf Paul ; Schmah, Alexander ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shahaliev, Ehtiram ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Sharma, B. ; Shen, W.Q. ; Shi, S.S. ; Shou, Q.Y. ; Sichtermann, Ernst P. ; Šimko, Miroslav ; Skoby, M.J. ; Smirnov, Dmitri V. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Solanki, D. ; Sorensen, Paul Richard ; Spinka, Harold. M. ; Srivastava, Brijesh Kumar ; Stanislaus, T. D. Shirvel ; Stevens, J.R. ; Stock, Reinhard ; Strichanov, Michail Nikolaevič ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Šumbera, Michal ; Sun, X. ; Sun, X.M. ; Sun, Y. ; Sun, Z. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Svirida, Dmitry N. ; Symons, Timothy James MacNeil ; Szelezniak, M.A. ; Takahashi, Jun ; Tang, Aihong ; Tang, Zebo ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Tokarev, Mikhail V. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Trzeciak, Barbara Antonina ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Turnau, J. ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Van Buren, Gene ; Nieuwenhuizen, Gerrit J. van ; Vandenbroucke, Maxence ; Vanfossen, Joseph A. ; Varma, Raghava ; Vasconcelos, Geraldo M. S. ; Vasiliev, Alexander Nikolaevich ; Vértesi, Róbert ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Viyogi, Yogendra P. ; Vokal, Stanislav ; Vossen, A. ; Wada, M. ; Wang, F. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, H. ; Wang, J.S. ; Wang, X.L. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Webb, Grant ; Webb, Jason C. ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wieman, Howard ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Wu, Y.F. ; Xiao, Z. ; Xie, W. ; Xin, K. ; Xu, H. ; Xu, J. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Q.H. ; Xu, Y. ; Xu, Z. ; Yan, W. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, Y. ; Yang, Y. ; Ye, Z. ; Yepes, Pablo P. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Yu, N. ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, W. ; Zhang, J.B. ; Zhang, J.L. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, X.P. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Z.P. ; Zhao, F. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhong, C. ; Zhu, X. ; Zhu, Y.H. ; Zoulkarneeva, Youlia ; Zyzak, Maksym
A data-driven method was applied to Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV made with the STAR detector at RHIC to isolate pseudorapidity distance η-dependent and η-independent correlations by using two- and four-particle azimuthal cumulant measurements. We identified a η-independent component of the correlation, which is dominated by anisotropic flow and flow fluctuations. It was also found to be independent of η within the measured range of pseudorapidity |η| < 1. In 20–30% central Au+Au collisions, the relative flow fluctuation was found to be 34%±2%(stat.)±3%(sys.) for particles with transverse momentum pT less than 2 GeV/c. The η-dependent part, attributed to nonflow correlations, is found to be 5% ± 2%(sys.) relative to the flow of the measured second harmonic cumulant at |η| > 0.7.
Bächler, Joachim ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Białkowska, Helena ; Bock, Rudolf ; Brockmann, Robert ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Chase, S. I. ; Derado, Ivan ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eschke, Jürgen ; Ferenc, Daniel ; Fleischmann, B. ; Foka, Panagiota ; Fuchs, Michael ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Harris, John W. ; Heck, Wilfried ; Hoffmann, Matthias ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kadija, Krešo ; Keidel, Ralf ; Kosiec, Jacek ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kühmichel, Andreas ; Lahanas, Michael ; Lee, Jae-Yun ; Ljubičić, Ante ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Morse, Richard J. ; Nappi, Eugenio ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Paic, Guy ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Piper, Andreas ; Posa, Francesco ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Pugh, Howel G. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Rai, Gulshan ; Rauch, Wolfgang Hans ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Roland, Gunther ; Rothard, Hermann ; Runge, Kay ; Sandoval, Andres ; Schambach, Joachim ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schmoetten, Emile ; Schneider, Ingo ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Stefański, Piotr ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Teitelbaum, Lawrence Paul ; Tincknell, Mark L. ; Tonse, Shaheen ; Vasileiadis, Georgios ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wenig, Siegfried
The transverse momentum and rapidity distributions of negative hadrons and participant protons have been measured for central 32S+ 32S collisions at plab=200 GeV/c per nucleon. The proton mean rapidity shift < Delta y>~1.6 and mean transverse momentum <pT>~0.6 GeV/c are much higher than in pp or peripheral AA collisions and indicate an increase in the nuclear stopping power. All pT spectra exhibit similar source temperatures. Including previous results for K0s Lambda , and Lambda -bar, we account for all important contributions to particle production.
Appelshäuser, Harald ; Bächler, Joachim ; Bailey, Stephen John ; Barnby, Lee Stuart ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Barton, Robert Allan ; Białkowska, Helena ; Billmeier, Anja ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Bock, Rudolf ; Bormann, Christian ; Brady, Franklin Paul ; Brockmann, Robert ; Brun, René ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Cooper, Glenn E. ; Cramer, John G. ; Csato, Peter ; Dunn, Jason ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eckhardt, Frank ; Ferguson, M. I. ; Fischer, Hans Gerhard ; Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; Fodor, Zoltan ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Fuchs, Matthias ; Gabler, Frank ; Gal, Jozsef ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Grebieszkow, Jaroslaw ; Günther, Jörg ; Harris, John W. ; Hegyi, Sandor ; Henkel, Torsten ; Hill, L. A. ; Huang, Isaac ; Hümmler, Holm Gero ; Igo, George J. ; Irmscher, Detlef ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kowalski, Marek ; Lasiuk, Brian ; Lévai, Peter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Mock, Andreas ; Molnár, József ; Nelson, John M. ; Oldenburg, Markus D. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Palla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Piper, Andreas ; Porter, R. Jefferson ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Poziombka, Stefan ; Prindle, Duncan J. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Rauch, Wolfgang Hans ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Roland, Christof ; Roland, Gunther ; Rudolph, Heinrich ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Semenov, Alexei Yu. ; Schäfer, Erich ; Schmischke, Dirk ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schönfelder, Stefan ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Sikler, Ferenc ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Squier, Gordon Thomas Anderson ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Szentpetery, Imre ; Sziklay, Janos ; Toy, Milton Y. ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Trentalage, Stephen ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Vesztergombi, György ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wang, Feipeng ; Weerasundara, Dhammika D. ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Wienold, Thomas ; Wood, Lindsay ; Yates, Tim A. ; Xu, Nu ; Zimanyi, Jozsef ; Zhu, Xue-Zhou ; Zybert, Ryszard
Two-particle correlation functions of negative hadrons over wide phase space, and transverse mass spectra of negative hadrons and deuterons near mid-rapidity have been measured in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon by the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS. A novel Coulomb correction procedure for the negative two-particle correlations is employed making use of the measured oppositely charged particle correlation. Within an expanding source scenario these results are used to extract the dynamic characteristics of the hadronic source, resolving the ambiguities between the temperature and transverse expansion velocity of the source, that are unavoidable when single and two particle spectra are analysed separately. The source shape, the total duration of the source expansion, the duration of particle emission, the freeze-out temperature and the longitudinal and transverse expansion velocities are deduced.
Directed and elliptic flow of charged pions and protons in Pb + Pb collisions at 40 and 158 A GeV
(2003)
Alt, Christopher ; Antičić, Tome ; Baatar, B. ; Barna, Daniel ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Behler, Matthias ; Betev, Latchezar ; Białkowska, Helena ; Billmeier, Anja ; Blume, Christoph ; Boimska, Bożena ; Borghini, Nicolas ; Botje, Michiel ; Bracinik, Juraj ; Bramm, Roland ; Brun, René ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Černý, Vladimír ; Chvala, Ondrej ; Cooper, Glenn E. ; Cramer, John G. ; Csató, Péter ; Dinh, Phuong Mai ; Dinkelaker, Peter ; Eckardt, Volker ; Filip, Peter ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Georgopoulos, George ; Gładysz, Ewa ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Höhne, Claudia ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Kadija, Krešo ; Karev, Alexandre ; Kniege, Stefan ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Korus, Robert ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kraus, Ingrid ; Kreps, Michal ; Leeuwen, Marco van ; Lévai, Péter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Markert, Christina ; Mayes, Bill W. ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Meurer, Christine ; Mischke, André ; Mitrovski, Michael Kosta ; Molnár, József ; Mrówczyński, Stanislaw ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ollitrault, Jean-Yves ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Perl, Katarzyna ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Pikna, Miroslav ; Pinsky, Lawrence ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Roland, Christof ; Roland, Gunther ; Rybczyński, Maciej ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seyboth, Peter ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Sitar, Branislav ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Snellings, Raimond ; Stefanek, Grzegorz ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Šuša, Tatjana ; Szentpétery, Imre ; Sziklai, János ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Varga, Dezsö ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Veres, Gábor I. ; Vesztergombi, György ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wetzler, Alexander Albert ; Włodarczyk, Zbigniew ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimányi, József
Directed and elliptic flow measurements for charged pions and protons are reported as a function of transverse momentum, rapidity, and centrality for 40 and 158A GeV Pb + Pb collisions as recorded by the NA49 detector. Both the standard method of correlating particles with an event plane, and the cumulant method of studying multiparticle correlations are used. In the standard method the directed flow is corrected for conservation of momentum. In the cumulant method elliptic flow is reconstructed from genuine 4, 6, and 8-particle correlations, showing the first unequivocal evidence for collective motion in A+A collisions at SPS energies.
Alber, Thomas ; Bächler, Joachim ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Białkowska, Helena ; Bloomer, Matthew A. ; Bock, Rudolf ; Braithwaite, Wilfred J. ; Brinkmann, Dittmar ; Brockmann, Robert ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Chan, Phaikying ; Cramer, Pauline B. ; Cramer, John G. ; Derado, Ivan ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eschke, Jürgen ; Favuzzi, Cecilia ; Ferenc, Daniel ; Fleischmann, B. ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Fuchs, Michael ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Harris, John W. ; Hoffman, Matthias ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kosiec, Jacek ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kühmichel, Andreas ; Lahanas, Michael ; Lee, Jae-Yun ; Ljubičić, Ante ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Mitchell, Jeffery Thomas ; Morse, Richard J. ; Nappi, Eugenio ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Paić, Guy ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Piper, Andreas ; Posa, Francesco ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Rauch, Wolfgang Hans ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Roland, Gunther ; Rothard, Hermann ; Runge, Kay ; Sandoval, Andres ; Schambach, Joachim ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schmoetten, Emile ; Schneider, Ingo ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Spinelli, Paolo ; Stefansky, Piotr ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Vasileiadis, Georgios ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Wosiek, Barbara
The NA35 experiment has collected a high statistics set of momentum analyzed negative hadrons near and forward of midrapidity for central collisions of 200A GeV/c 32S+S, Cu, Ag, and Au. Using momentum space correlations to study the size of the source of particle production, the transverse source radii are found to decrease by ~40% at midrapidity and ~20% at forward rapidity while the longitudinal radius RL is found to decrease by ~50% as pT increases over the interval 50<pT<600 MeV/c. Calculations using a microscopic phase space approach (relativistic quantum molecular dynamics) reproduce the observed trends of the data. PACS: 25.75.+r
Alber, Thomas ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Białkowska, Helena ; Bloomer, Matthew A. ; Bock, Rudolf ; Braithwaite, Wilfred J. ; Brinkmann, Dittmar ; Brockmann, Robert ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Chan, Phaikying ; Chase, S. I. ; Cramer, Pauline B. ; Cramer, John G. ; Derado, Ivan ; Eberlein, Björn ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eschke, Jürgen ; Ferenc, Daniel ; Fleischmann, B. ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Fuchs, Michael ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Harris, John W. ; Hoffmann, Matthias ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kosiec, Jacek ; Kowalski, Marek ; Lahanas, Michael ; Lee, Jae-Yun ; Ljubicic, Ante Jr. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Mitchell, Jeffery Thomas ; Morse, Richard J. ; Nappi, Eugenio ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Paic, Guy ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Piper, Andreas ; Posa, Francesco ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Pugh, Howel G. ; Rai, Gulshan ; Rauch, Wolfgang Hans ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Roland, Gunther ; Rothard, Hermann ; Runge, Kay ; Sandoval, Andres ; Schambach, Joachim ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schmoetten, Emile ; Schneider, Ingo ; Sendelbach, Ralf ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Stefansky, Piotr ; Teitelbaum, Lawrence Paul ; Tonse, Shaheen ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Vasileiadis, Georgios ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Wensveen, Martinus ; Wosiek, Barbara
We present the measured correlation functions for pi+ pi-, pi- pi- and pi+ pi+ pairs in central S+Ag collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon. The Gamov function, which has been traditionally used to correct the correlation functions of charged pions for the Coulomb interaction, is found to be inconsistent with all measured correlation functions. Certain problems which have been dominating the systematic uncertainty of the correlation analysis are related to this inconsistency. It is demonstrated that a new Coulomb correction method, based exclusively on the measured correlation function for pi+ pi- pairs, may solve the problem.
Afanasiev, Sergey V. ; Antičić, Tome ; Bächler, Joachim ; Barna, Daniel ; Barnby, Lee Stuart ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Barton, Robert Allan ; Betev, Latchezar ; Białkowska, Helena ; Billmeier, Anja ; Blume, Christoph ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Boimska, Bożena ; Botje, Michiel ; Bracinik, Juraj ; Brady, Franklin Paul ; Bramm, Roland ; Brun, René ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Carr, Lincoln D. ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Cooper, Glenn E. ; Cramer, John G. ; Csató, Péter ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eckhardt, Frank ; Ferenc, Daniel ; Filip, Peter ; Fischer, Hans Gerhard ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Ftacnik, Jan ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Georgopoulos, George ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Harris, John W. ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Hlinka, V. ; Höhne, Claudia ; Igo, George J. ; Ivanov, Marian ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Janik, Rudolf ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Kowalski, Marek ; Lasiuk, Brian ; Leeuwen, Marco van ; Lévai, Péter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Mayes, Bill W. ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Mischke, André ; Molnár, József ; Nelson, John M. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Pikna, Miroslav ; Pinsky, Lawrence ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Prindle, Duncan J. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Roland, Christof ; Roland, Gunther ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sammer, Thomas ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Schäfer, Erich ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seyboth, Peter ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Sitar, Branislav ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Snellings, Raimond ; Squier, Gordon Thomas Anderson ; Stock, Reinhard ; Strmen, Peter ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Šuša, Tatjana ; Szarka, Imrich ; Szentpétery, Imre ; Sziklai, János ; Toy, Milton Y. ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Varga, Dezsö ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Veres, Gábor I. ; Vesztergombi, György ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wang, Feipeng ; Weerasundara, Dhammika D. ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Wetzler, Alexander Albert ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Xu, Nu ; Yates, Tim A. ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zimányi, József
We present the first measurement of fluctuations from event to event in the production of strange particles in collisions of heavy nuclei. The ratio of charged kaons to charged pions is determined for individual central Pb+Pb collisions. After accounting for the fluctuations due to detector resolution and finite number statistics we derive an upper limit on genuine non-statistical fluctuations, perhaps related to a first or second order QCD phase transition. Such fluctuations are shown to be very small.
Adler, Clemens ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Allgower, Chris ; Amonett, John ; Anderson, Bryon D. ; Anderson, Mike ; Averichev, Georgy S. ; Balewski, Jan ; Barannikova, Olga ; Barnby, Lee Stuart ; Baudot, Jérome ; Bekele, Selemon ; Belaga, Victoria Vladimirovna ; Bellwied, Rene ; Berger, Jens ; Bichsel, Hans ; Bland, Leslie C. ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Bonner, Billy E. ; Boucham, Abdelkrim ; Brandin, Andrei V. ; Cadman, R. V. ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Cardenas, Andrés ; Carroll, J. ; Castillo Castellanos, Javier Ernesto ; Castro, M. ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chen, M. L. ; Chen, Y. ; Chernenko, Sergey P. ; Cherney, Michael Gerard ; Chikanian, Alexei ; Choi, B. ; Christie, William ; Coffin, Jean Pierre ; Cormier, Thomas Michael ; Cramer, John G. ; Crawford, Henry J. ; DeMello, M. ; Deng, W. S. ; Derevschikov, Anatoly A. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Draper, James E. ; Dunin, V. B. ; Dunlop, James C. ; Eckardt, Volker ; Efimov, Leonid G. ; Emelianov, V. ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Erazmus, Barbara Ewa ; Fachini, Patricia ; Faine, V. ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; Foley, K. J. ; Fu, J. ; Gagunashvili, N. ; Gans, J. ; Gaudichet, L. ; Germain, Marie ; Geurts, Frank ; Ghazikhanian, Vahe ; Grabski, J. ; Grachov, Oleg A. ; Greiner, D. ; Grigoriev, Vladislav A. ; Guedon, M. ; Gushin, E. ; Hallman, Timothy J. ; Hardtke, David H. ; Harris, John W. ; Heffner, Michael D. ; Heppelmann, Steven Francis ; Herston, T. ; Hippolyte, Boris ; Hirsch, Andrew S. ; Hjort, Eric ; Hoffmann, Gerald W. ; Horsley, M. ; Huang, Huan Zhong ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Hümmler, Holm Gero ; Igo, George J. ; Ishihara, A. ; Ivanshin, Yu. I. ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Jacobs, William W. ; Janik, Michał ; Johnson, I. ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kaneta, Kaneta ; Kaplan, Morton ; Keane, Declan ; Kisiel, Adam Ryszard ; Klay, Jennifer Lynn ; Klein, Spencer Robert ; Klyachko, A. ; Konstantinov, A. S. ; Kotchenda, L. ; Kovalenko, A. D. ; Kramer, M. ; Kravtsov, Peter ; Krueger, Keith William ; Kuhn, Christian Claude ; Kulikov, Anatoly I. ; Kunde, Gerd J. ; Kunz, Christopher Lee ; Kutuev, R. Kh. ; Kuznetsov, A. A. ; Lakehal-Ayat, L. ; Lamas-Valverde, Jose ; Lamont, Matthew A. C. ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Lange, S. ; Lansdell, Curtis Patrick Leon ; Lasiuk, Brian ; Laue, Frank ; Lebedev, Alexei ; LeCompte, T. ; Lednický, Richard ; Leontiev, V. M. ; LeVine, Micheal J. ; Li, Q. ; Li, Q. ; Lindenbaum, Sam J. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; LoCurto, G. ; Long, H. ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Lopez-Noriega, M. ; Love, William A. ; Lynn, David ; Majka, Richard Daniel ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Martin, L. ; Marx, Jay N. ; Matis, Howard S. ; Matulenko, Yuri A. ; McShane, Tom S. ; Meissner, F. ; Melnick, Yu. ; Meščanin, Aleksei P. ; Messer, Matthias ; Miller, M. L. ; Milosevich, Z. ; Minaev, Nikolai G. ; Mitchell, J. ; Moiseenko, V. A. ; Moltz, D. ; Moore, C. F. ; Morozov, V. ; de Moura, M. M. ; Munhoz, Marcelo Gameiro ; Mutchler, G. S. ; Nelson, John M. ; Nevski, P. ; Nikitin, Vladimir A. ; Nogach, Larisa V. ; Norman, B. ; Nurušev, Sandibek B. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Okorokov, Vitaly A. ; Oldenburg, Markus D. ; Olson, Douglas L. ; Paic, Guy ; Pandey, S. U. ; Panebratsev, Yuri ; Panitkin, Sergei Yurievich ; Pavlinov, A. I. ; Pawlak, Tomasz Jan ; Perevoztchikov, V. ; Peryt, Wiktor Stanislaw ; Petrov, V. A. ; Platner, E. ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Porile, Norbert T. ; Porter, Jeffrey Brent ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Potrebenikova, E. ; Prindle, Duncan J. ; Pruneau, Claude A. ; Radomski, S. ; Rai, Gulshan ; Ravel, Olivier ; Ray, Robert L. ; Razin, Sergej V. ; Reichhold, Dennis Michael ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Retiere, Fabrice ; Ridiger, Alexey ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Roberts, Jabus B. ; Rogachevski, O. V. ; Romero, Juan L. ; Roy, Christelle Sophie ; Russ, D. ; Rykov, Vladimir L. ; Sakrejda, Iwona ; Sandweiss, Jack H. ; Saulys, A. C. ; Savin, Igor A. ; Schambach, Joachim ; Scharenberg, Rolf Paul ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schroeder, Lee S. ; Schüttauf, Andreas ; Schweda, Kai ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Seliverstov, D. ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shahaliev, Ehtiram ; Shestermanov, Konstantin E. ; Shimanskii, S. S. ; Shvetcov, V. S. ; Skoro, Goran P. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Snellings, Raimond ; Sowinski, James ; Spinka, Harold. M. ; Srivastava, Brijesh Kumar ; Stephenson, Edward J. ; Stock, Reinhard ; Stolpovsky, Alexander ; Strichanov, Michail Nikolaevič ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Struck, Christof ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Sugarbaker, Evan R. ; Suire, Christophe Pierre ; Šumbera, Michal ; Symons, Timothy James MacNeil ; Toledo, Alejandro Szanto de ; Szarwas, Piotr ; Takahashi, Jun ; Tang, Aihong ; Thomas, James H. ; Tikhomirov, V. ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tokarev, Mikhail V. ; Tonjes, Marguerite Belt ; Trofimov, V. ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Turner, K. ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Van Buren, Gene ; VanderMolen, A. M. ; Vanyashin, A. ; Vasilevski, I. M. ; Vasiliev, Alexander Nikolaevich ; Vigdor, Steven E. ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Wang, F. ; Ward, H. ; Watson, J. W. ; Wells, R. ; Wenaus, T. ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Wieman, Howard ; Willson, Robert ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Z. ; Yakutin, A. E. ; Yamamoto, E. ; Yang, J. ; Yepes, Pablo P. ; Yokosawa, A. ; Yurevich, Vladimir Yurevich ; Zanevski, Y. V. ; Zborovský, Imrich ; Zhang, Haitao ; Zhang, W. M. ; Zoulkarneev, R. ; Zubarev, A. N.
The first measurements of light antinucleus production in Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider are reported. The observed production rates for d-bar and 3He-bar are much larger than in lower energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. A coalescence model analysis of the yields indicates that there is little or no increase in the antinucleon freeze-out volume compared to collisions at CERN SPS energy. These analyses also indicate that the 3He-bar freeze-out volume is smaller than the d-bar freeze-out volume.
Adler, Clemens ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Allgower, Chris ; Amonett, John ; Anderson, Bryon D. ; Anderson, Mike ; Averichev, Georgy S. ; Balewski, Jan ; Barannikova, Olga ; Barnby, Lee Stuart ; Baudot, Jérome ; Bekele, Selemon ; Belaga, Victoria Vladimirovna ; Bellwied, Rene ; Berger, Jens ; Bichsel, Hans ; Billmeier, Anja ; Bland, Leslie C. ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Bonner, Billy E. ; Boucham, Abdelkrim ; Brandin, Andrei V. ; Bravar, Alessandro ; Cadman, R. V. ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Cardenas, Andrés ; Carroll, J. ; Castillo Castellanos, Javier Ernesto ; Castro, M. ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chen, Y. ; Chernenko, S. P. ; Cherney, Michael Gerard ; Chikanian, Alexei ; Choi, B. ; Christie, William ; Coffin, Jean Pierre ; Cormier, Thomas Michael ; Cramer, John G. ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Deng, W. S. ; Derevschikov, Anatoly A. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dietel, Thomas ; Draper, James E. ; Dunin, V. B. ; Dunlop, James C. ; Eckardt, Volker ; Efimov, Leonid G. ; Emelianov, V. ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Erazmus, Barbara Ewa ; Fachini, Patricia ; Faine, V. ; Filimonov, Kirill ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; Foley, K. J. ; Fu, J. ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Gagunashvili, N. ; Gans, J. ; Gaudichet, L. ; Germain, Marie ; Geurts, Frank ; Ghazikhanian, Vahe ; Grachov, Oleg A. ; Grigoriev, Vladislav A. ; Guedon, M. ; Gushin, E. ; Hallman, Timothy J. ; Hardtke, David H. ; Harris, John W. ; Henry, Thomas W. ; Heppelmann, Steven Francis ; Herston, T. ; Hippolyte, Boris ; Hirsch, Andrew S. ; Hjort, Eric ; Hoffmann, Gerald W. ; Horsley, M. ; Huang, Huan Zhong ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Igo, George J. ; Ishihara, A. ; Ivanshin, Yu. I. ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Jacobs, William W. ; Janik, Michał ; Johnson, I. ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kaneta, Kaneta ; Kaplan, Morton ; Keane, Declan ; Kiryluk, Joanna ; Kisiel, Adam Ryszard ; Klay, Jennifer Lynn ; Klein, Spencer Robert ; Klyachko, A. ; Konstantinov, A. S. ; Kopytine, M. ; Kotchenda, L. ; Kovalenko, A. D. ; Kramer, M. ; Kravtsov, Peter ; Krueger, Keith William ; Kuhn, Christian Claude ; Kulikov, Anatoly I. ; Kunde, Gerd J. ; Kunz, Christopher Lee ; Kutuev, R. Kh. ; Kuznetsov, A. A. ; Lakehal-Ayat, L. ; Lamont, Matthew A. C. ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Lange, S. ; Lansdell, Curtis Patrick Leon ; Lasiuk, Brian ; Laue, Frank ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lednický, Richard ; Leontiev, V. M. ; LeVine, Micheal J. ; Li, Q. ; Lindenbaum, Sam J. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, F. ; Liu, L. ; Liu, Z. ; Liu, Q. J. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; LoCurto, G. ; Long, H. ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Lopez-Noriega, M. ; Love, William A. ; Ludlam, Thomas ; Lynn, David ; Ma, Jing-guo ; Majka, Richard Daniel ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Martin, L. ; Marx, Jay N. ; Matis, Howard S. ; Matulenko, Yuri A. ; McShane, Tom S. ; Meissner, F. ; Melnick, Yu. ; Meščanin, Aleksei P. ; Messer, Matthias ; Miller, M. L. ; Milosevich, Z. ; Minaev, Nikolai G. ; Mitchell, J. ; Moiseenko, V. A. ; Moore, C. F. ; Morozov, V. ; de Moura, M. M. ; Munhoz, Marcelo Gameiro ; Nelson, John M. ; Nevski, P. ; Nikitin, Vladimir A. ; Nogach, Larisa V. ; Norman, B. ; Nurušev, Sandibek B. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Okorokov, Vitaly A. ; Oldenburg, Markus D. ; Olson, Douglas L. ; Paic, Guy ; Pandey, S. U. ; Panebratsev, Yuri ; Panitkin, Sergei Yurievich ; Pavlinov, A. I. ; Pawlak, Tomasz Jan ; Perevoztchikov, V. ; Peryt, Wiktor Stanislaw ; Petrov, V. A. ; Planinic, Mirko ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Porile, Norbert T. ; Porter, Jeffrey Brent ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Potrebenikova, E. ; Prindle, Duncan J. ; Pruneau, Claude A. ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Rai, Gulshan ; Rakness, Gregory L. ; Ravel, Olivier ; Ray, Robert L. ; Razin, Sergej V. ; Reichhold, Dennis Michael ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renault, G. ; Retiere, Fabrice ; Ridiger, Alexey ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Roberts, Jabus B. ; Rogachevski, O. V. ; Romero, Juan L. ; Rose, A. ; Roy, Christelle Sophie ; Rykov, Vladimir L. ; Sakrejda, Iwona ; Salur, Sevil ; Sandweiss, Jack H. ; Saulys, A. C. ; Savin, Igor A. ; Schambach, Joachim ; Scharenberg, Rolf Paul ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schroeder, Lee S. ; Schüttauf, Andreas ; Schweda, Kai ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Seliverstov, D. ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shahaliev, Ehtiram ; Shestermanov, Konstantin E. ; Shimanskii, S. S. ; Shvetcov, V. S. ; Skoro, Goran P. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Snellings, Raimond ; Sorensen, Paul Richard ; Sowinski, James ; Spinka, Harold. M. ; Srivastava, Brijesh Kumar ; Stephenson, Edward J. ; Stock, Reinhard ; Stolpovsky, Alexander ; Strichanov, Michail Nikolaevič ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Struck, Christof ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Sugarbaker, Evan R. ; Suire, Christophe Pierre ; Šumbera, Michal ; Surrow, Bernd ; Symons, Timothy James MacNeil ; Toledo, Alejandro Szanto de ; Szarwas, Piotr ; Tai, An ; Takahashi, Jun ; Tang, Aihong ; Thomas, James H. ; Thompson, M. ; Tikhomirov, V. ; Tokarev, Mikhail V. ; Tonjes, Marguerite Belt ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Trofimov, V. ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Van Buren, Gene ; VanderMolen, A. M. ; Vasilevski, I. M. ; Vasiliev, Alexander Nikolaevich ; Vigdor, Steven E. ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Wang, F. ; Ward, H. ; Watson, J. W. ; Wells, R. ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Wieman, Howard ; Willson, Robert ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wood, J. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Z. ; Yakutin, A. E. ; Yamamoto, E. ; Yang, J. ; Yepes, Pablo P. ; Yurevich, Vladimir Yurevich ; Zanevski, Y. V. ; Zborovský, I. ; Zhang, Haitao ; Zhang, W. M. ; Zoulkarneev, R. ; Zubarev, A. N.
Elliptic flow holds much promise for studying the early-time thermalization attained in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. Flow measurements also provide a means of distinguishing between hydrodynamic models and calculations which approach the low density (dilute gas) limit. Among the effects that can complicate the interpretation of elliptic flow measurements are azimuthal correlations that are unrelated to the reaction plane (nonflow correlations). Using data for Au + Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=130 GeV from the STAR time projection chamber, it is found that four-particle correlation analyses can reliably separate flow and nonflow correlation signals. The latter account for on average about 15% of the observed second-harmonic azimuthal correlation, with the largest relative contribution for the most peripheral and the most central collisions. The results are also corrected for the effect of flow variations within centrality bins. This effect is negligible for all but the most central bin, where the correction to the elliptic flow is about a factor of 2. A simple new method for two-particle flow analysis based on scalar products is described. An analysis based on the distribution of the magnitude of the flow vector is also described.