Phys. Rev. C
68,
044905
(2003)
[9 pages]
Net charge fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=130 GeV
J. Adams et al. STAR Collaboration
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J. Adams3, C. Adler12, M. M. Aggarwal25, Z. Ahammed28, J. Amonett17, B. D. Anderson17, M. Anderson5, D. Arkhipkin11, G. S. Averichev10, S. K. Badyal16, J. Balewski13, O. Barannikova28,10, L. S. Barnby17, J. Baudot15, S. Bekele24, V. V. Belaga10, R. Bellwied41, J. Berger12, B. I. Bezverkhny43, S. Bhardwaj29, P. Bhaskar38, A. K. Bhati25, H. Bichsel40, A. Billmeier41, L. C. Bland2, C. O. Blyth3, B. E. Bonner30, M. Botje23, A. Boucham34, A. Brandin21, A. Bravar2, R. V. Cadman2, X. Z. Cai33, H. Caines43, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez2, A. Cardenas28, J. Carroll18, J. Castillo18, M. Castro41, D. Cebra5, P. Chaloupka9, S. Chattopadhyay38, H. F. Chen32, Y. Chen6, S. P. Chernenko10, M. Cherney8, A. Chikanian43, B. Choi36, W. Christie2, J. P. Coffin15, T. M. Cormier41, J. G. Cramer40, H. J. Crawford4, D. Das38, S. Das38, A. A. Derevschikov27, L. Didenko2, T. Dietel12, X. Dong32,18, J. E. Draper5, F. Du43, A. K. Dubey14, V. B. Dunin10, J. C. Dunlop2, M. R. Dutta Majumdar38, V. Eckardt19, L. G. Efimov10, V. Emelianov21, J. Engelage4, G. Eppley30, B. Erazmus34, P. Fachini2, V. Faine2, J. Faivre15, R. Fatemi13, K. Filimonov18, P. Filip9, E. Finch43, Y. Fisyak2, D. Flierl12, K. J. Foley2, J. Fu42, C. A. Gagliardi35, M. S. Ganti38, T. D. Gutierrez5, N. Gagunashvili10, J. Gans43, L. Gaudichet34, M. Germain15, F. Geurts30, V. Ghazikhanian6, P. Ghosh38, J. E. Gonzalez6, O. Grachov41, V. Grigoriev21, S. Gronstal8, D. Grosnick37, M. Guedon15, S. M. Guertin6, A. Gupta16, E. Gushin21, T. J. Hallman2, D. Hardtke18, J. W. Harris43, M. Heinz43, T. W. Henry35, S. Heppelmann26, T. Herston28, B. Hippolyte43, A. Hirsch28, E. Hjort18, G. W. Hoffmann36, M. Horsley43, H. Z. Huang6, S. L. Huang32, T. J. Humanic24, G. Igo6, A. Ishihara36, P. Jacobs18, W. W. Jacobs13, M. Janik39, I. Johnson18, P. G. Jones3, E. G. Judd4, S. Kabana43, M. Kaneta18, M. Kaplan7, D. Keane17, J. Kiryluk6, A. Kisiel39, J. Klay18, S. R. Klein18, A. Klyachko13, D. D. Koetke37, T. Kolleger12, A. S. Konstantinov27, M. Kopytine17, L. Kotchenda21, A. D. Kovalenko10, M. Kramer22, P. Kravtsov21, K. Krueger1, C. Kuhn15, A. I. Kulikov10, A. Kumar25, G. J. Kunde43, C. L. Kunz7, R. Kh. Kutuev11, A. A. Kuznetsov10, M. A. C. Lamont3, J. M. Landgraf2, S. Lange12, C. P. Lansdell36, B. Lasiuk43, F. Laue2, J. Lauret2, A. Lebedev2, R. Lednický10, V. M. Leontiev27, M. J. LeVine2, C. Li32, Q. Li41, S. J. Lindenbaum22, M. A. Lisa24, F. Liu42, L. Liu42, Z. Liu42, Q. J. Liu40, T. Ljubicic2, W. J. Llope30, H. Long6, R. S. Longacre2, M. Lopez-Noriega24, W. A. Love2, T. Ludlam2, D. Lynn2, J. Ma6, Y. G. Ma33, D. Magestro24, S. Mahajan16, L. K. Mangotra16, D. P. Mahapatra14, R. Majka43, R. Manweiler37, S. Margetis17, C. Markert43, L. Martin34, J. Marx18, H. S. Matis18, Yu. A. Matulenko27, T. S. McShane8, F. Meissner18, Yu. Melnick27, A. Meschanin27, M. Messer2, M. L. Miller43, Z. Milosevich7, N. G. Minaev27, C. Mironov17, D. Mishra14, J. Mitchell30, B. Mohanty38, L. Molnar28, C. F. Moore36, M. J. Mora-Corral19, V. 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S. Schroeder18, K. Schweda18, J. Seger8, D. Seliverstov21, P. Seyboth19, E. Shahaliev10, M. Shao32, M. Sharma25, K. E. Shestermanov27, S. S. Shimanskii10, R. N. Singaraju38, F. Simon19, G. Skoro10, N. Smirnov43, R. Snellings23, G. Sood25, P. Sorensen6, J. Sowinski13, H. M. Spinka1, B. Srivastava28, S. Stanislaus37, R. Stock12, A. Stolpovsky41, M. Strikhanov21, B. Stringfellow28, C. Struck12, A. A. P. Suaide41, E. Sugarbaker24, C. Suire2, M. Šumbera9, B. Surrow2, T. J. M. Symons18, A. Szanto de Toledo31, P. Szarwas39, A. Tai6, J. Takahashi31, A. H. Tang2,23, D. Thein6, J. H. Thomas18, V. Tikhomirov21, M. Tokarev10, M. B. Tonjes20, S. Trentalange6, R. E. Tribble35, M. D. Trivedi38, V. Trofimov21, O. Tsai6, T. Ullrich2, D. G. Underwood1, G. Van Buren2, A. M. VanderMolen20, A. N. Vasiliev27, M. Vasiliev35, S. E. Vigdor13, Y. P. Viyogi38, S. A. Voloshin41, W. Waggoner8, F. Wang28, G. Wang17, X. L. Wang32, Z. M. Wang32, H. Ward36, J. W. Watson17, R. Wells24, G. D. Westfall20, C. Whitten, Jr.6, H. Wieman18, R. Willson24, S. W. Wissink13, R. Witt43, J. Wood6, J. Wu32, N. Xu18, Z. Xu2, Z. Z. Xu32, A. E. Yakutin27, E. Yamamoto18, J. Yang6, P. Yepes30, V. I. Yurevich10, Y. V. Zanevski10, I. Zborovský9, H. Zhang43,2, H. Y. Zhang17, W. M. Zhang17, Z. P. Zhang32, P. A. Zołnierczuk13, R. Zoulkarneev11, J. Zoulkarneeva11, and A. N. Zubarev10 (STAR Collaboration)
1Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
2Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
3University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
4University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
5University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
6University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
7Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
8Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, USA
9Nuclear Physics Institute AS CR, Rež/Prague, Czech Republic
10Laboratory for High Energy (JINR), Dubna, Russia
11Particle Physics Laboratory (JINR), Dubna, Russia
12University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
13Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408, USA
14Insitute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 751005, India
15Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, Strasbourg, France
16University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
17Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
18Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
19Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich, Germany
20Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
21Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow Russia
22City College of New York, New York City, New York 10031, USA
23NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
24Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
25Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
26Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
27Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
28Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
29University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, India
30Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251, USA
31Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
32University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui 230027, China
33Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research, Shanghai 201800, People’s Republic of China
34SUBATECH, Nantes, France
35Texas A and M, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
36University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
37Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383, USA
38Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064, India
39Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
40University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
41Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
42Institute of Particle Physics, CCNU (HZNU), Wuhan 430079, China
43Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
44University of Zagreb, Zagreb HR-10002, Croatia
Received 8 July 2003; published 31 October 2003
We present the results of charged particle fluctuations measurements in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=130 GeV using the STAR detector. Dynamical fluctuations measurements are presented for inclusive charged particle multiplicities as well as for identified charged pions, kaons, and protons. The net charge dynamical fluctuations are found to be large and negative providing clear evidence that positive and negative charged particle production is correlated within the pseudorapidity range investigated. Correlations are smaller than expected based on model-dependent predictions for a resonance gas or a quark-gluon gas which undergoes fast hadronization and freeze-out. Qualitative agreement is found with comparable scaled p+p measurements and a heavy ion jet interaction generation model calculation based on independent particle collisions, although a small deviation from the 1∕N scaling dependence expected from this model is observed.
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URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.68.044905
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.68.044905
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