Phys. Rev. C
70,
054907
(2004)
[14 pages]
Measurements of transverse energy distributions in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV
J. Adams et al. STAR Collaboration
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J. Adams3, M. M. Aggarwal29, Z. Ahammed43, J. Amonett20, B. D. Anderson20, D. Arkhipkin13, G. S. Averichev12, Y. Bai27, J. Balewski17, O. Barannikova32, L. S. Barnby3, J. Baudot18, S. Bekele28, V. V. Belaga12, R. Bellwied46, J. Berger14, B. I. Bezverkhny48, S. Bharadwaj33, V. S. Bhatia29, H. Bichsel45, A. Billmeier46, L. C. Bland4, C. O. Blyth3, B. E. Bonner34, M. Botje27, A. Boucham38, A. Brandin25, A. Bravar4, M. Bystersky11, R. V. Cadman1, X. Z. Cai37, H. Caines48, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez4, J. Carroll21, J. Castillo21, D. Cebra7, Z. Chajecki44, P. Chaloupka11, S. Chattopdhyay43, H. F. Chen36, Y. Chen8, J. Cheng41, M. Cherney10, A. Chikanian48, W. Christie4, J. P. Coffin18, T. M. Cormier46, J. G. Cramer45, H. J. Crawford6, D. Das43, S. Das43, M. M. de Moura35, A. A. Derevschikov31, L. Didenko4, T. Dietel14, W. J. Dong8, X. Dong36, J. E. Draper7, F. Du48, A. K. Dubey15, V. B. Dunin12, J. C. Dunlop4, M. R. Dutta Mazumdar43, V. Eckardt23, W. R. Edwards21, L. G. Efimov12, V. Emelianov25, J. Engelage6, G. Eppley34, B. Erazmus38, M. Estienne38, P. Fachini4, J. Faivre18, R. Fatemi17, J. Fedorisin12, K. Filimonov21, P. Filip11, E. Finch48, V. Fine4, Y. Fisyak4, K. J. Foley4, K. Fomenko12, J. Fu41, C. A. Gagliardi39, J. Gans48, M. S. Ganti43, L. Gaudichet38, F. Geurts34, V. Ghazikhanian8, P. Ghosh43, J. E. Gonzalez8, O. Grachov46, O. Grebenyuk27, D. Grosnick42, S. M. Guertin8, Y. Guo46, A. Gupta19, T. D. Gutierrez7, T. J. Hallman4, A. Hamed46, D. Hardtke21, J. W. Harris48, M. Heinz2, T. W. Henry39, S. Hepplemann30, B. Hippolyte48, A. Hirsch32, E. Hjort21, G. W. Hoffmann40, H. Z. Huang8, S. L. Huang36, E. W. Hughes5, T. J. Humanic28, G. Igo8, A. Ishihara40, P. Jacobs21, W. W. Jacobs17, M. Janik44, H. Jiang8, P. G. Jones3, E. G. Judd6, S. Kabana2, K. Kang41, M. Kaplan9, D. Keane20, V. Yu. Khodyrev31, J. Kiryluk22, A. Kisiel44, E. M. Kislov12, J. Klay21, S. R. Klein21, A. Klyachko17, D. D. Koetke42, T. Kollegger14, M. Kopytine20, L. Kotchenda25, M. Kramer26, P. Kravtsov25, V. I. Kravtsov31, K. Krueger1, C. Kuhn18, A. I. Kulikov12, A. Kumar29, C. L. Kunz9, R. Kh. Kutuev13, A. A. Kuznetsov12, M. A. C. Lamont48, J. M. Landgraf4, S. Lange14, F. Laue4, J. Lauret4, A. Lebedev4, R. Lednicky12, S. Lehocka12, M. J. LeVine4, C. Li36, Q. Li46, Y. Li41, S. J. Lindenbaum26, M. A. Lisa28, F. Liu47, L. Liu47, Q. J. Liu45, Z. Liu47, T. Ljubicic4, W. J. Llope34, H. Long8, R. S. Longacre4, M. Lopez-Noriega28, W. A. Love4, Y. Lu47, T. Ludlam4, D. Lynn4, G. L. Ma37, J. G. Ma8, Y. G. Ma37, D. Magestro28, S. Mahajan19, D. P. Mahapatra15, R. Majka48, L. K. Mangotra19, R. Manweiler42, S. Margetis20, C. Markert48, L. Martin38, J. N. Marx21, H. S. Matis21, Yu. A. Matulenko31, C. J. McClain1, T. S. McShane10, F. Meissner21, Yu. Melnick31, A. Meschanin31, M. L. Miller22, Z. Milosevich9, N. G. Minaev31, C. Mironov20, A. Mischke27, D. Mishra15, J. Mitchell34, B. Mohanty43, L. Molnar32, C. F. Moore40, M. J. Mora-Corral23, D. A. Morozov31, V. Morozov21, M. G. Munhoz35, B. K. Nandi43, T. K. Nayak43, J. M. Nelson3, P. K. Netrakanti43, V. A. Nikitin13, L. V. Nogach31, B. Norman20, S. B. Nurushev31, G. Odyniec21, A. Ogawa4, V. Okorokov25, M. Oldenburg21, D. Olson21, S. K. Pal43, Y. Panebratsev12, S. Y. Panitkin4, A. I. Pavlinov46, T. Pawlak44, T. Peitzmann27, V. Perevoztchikov4, C. Perkins6, W. Peryt44, V. A. Petrov13, S. C. Phatak15, R. Picha7, M. Planinic49, J. Pluta44, N. Porile32, J. Porter45, A. M. Poskanzer21, M. Potekhin4, E. Potrebenikova12, B. V. K. S. Potukuchi19, D. Prindle45, C. Pruneau46, J. Putschke23, G. Rai21, G. Rakness30, R. Raniwala33, S. Raniwala33, O. Ravel38, R. L. Ray40, S. V. Razin12, D. Reichhold32, J. G. Reid45, G. Renault38, F. Retiere21, A. Ridiger25, H. G. Ritter21, J. B. Roberts34, O. V. Rogachevskiy12, J. L. Romero7, A. Rose46, C. Roy38, L. Ruan36, I. Sakrejda21, S. Salur48, J. Sandweiss48, I. Savin13, P. S. Sazhin12, J. Schambach40, R. P. Scharenberg32, N. Schmitz23, L. S. Schroeder21, K. Schweda21, J. Seger10, P. Seyboth23, E. Shahaliev12, M. Shao36, W. Shao5, M. Sharma29, W. Q. Shen37, K. E. Shestermanov31, S. S. Shimanskiy12, F. Simon23, R. N. Singaraju43, G. Skoro12, N. Smirnov48, R. Snellings27, G. Sood42, P. Sorensen21, J. Sowinski17, J. Speltz18, H. M. Spinka1, B. Srivastava32, A. Stadnik12, T. D. S. Stanislaus42, R. Stock14, A. Stolpovsky46, M. Strikhanov25, B. Stringfellow32, A. A. P. Suaide35, E. Sugarbaker28, C. Suire4, M. Sumbera11, B. Surrow22, T. J. M. Symons21, A. Szanto de Toledo35, P. Szarwas44, A. Tai8, J. Takahashi35, A. H. Tang27, T. Tarnowsky32, D. Thein8, J. H. Thomas21, S. Timoshenko25, M. Tokarev12, T. A. Trainor45, S. Trentalange8, R. E. Tribble39, O. Tsai8, J. Ulery32, T. Ullrich4, D. G. Underwood1, A. Urkinbaev12, G. Van Buren4, M. van Leeuwen21, A. M. Vander Molen24, R. Varma16, I. M. Vasilevski13, A. N. Vasiliev31, R. Vernet18, S. E. Vigdor17, V. P. Viyogi43, S. Vokal12, S. A. Voloshin46, M. Vznuzdaev25, B. Waggoner10, F. Wang32, G. Wang20, G. Wang5, X. L. Wang36, Y. Wang40, Y. Wang41, Z. M. Wang36, H. Ward40, J. W. Watson20, J. C. Webb17, R. Wells28, G. D. Westfall24, A. Wetzler21, C. Whitten, Jr.8, H. Wieman21, S. W. Wissink17, R. Witt2, J. Wood8, J. Wu36, N. Xu21, Z. Xu4, Z. Z. Xu36, E. Yamamoto21, P. Yepes34, V. I. Yurevich12, Y. V. Zanevsky12, H. Zhang4, W. M. Zhang20, Z. P. Zhang36, P. A. Zolnierczuk17, R. Zoulkarneev13, Y. Zoulkarneeva13, and A. N. Zubarev12 (STAR Collaboration)
1Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
2University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland CH-3012
3University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
4Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
5California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
6University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
7University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
8University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
9Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
10Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, USA
11Nuclear Physics Institute AS CR, 250 68 Řež/Prague, Czech Republic
12Laboratory for High Energy (JINR), Dubna, Russia
13Particle Physics Laboratory (JINR), Dubna, Russia
14University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
15Insitute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 751005, India
16Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
17Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408, USA
18Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, Strasbourg, France
19University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
20Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
21Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
22Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA
23Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany
24Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
25Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow Russia
26City College of New York, New York City, New York 10031, USA
27NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
28Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
29Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
30Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
31Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
32Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
33University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, India
34Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251, USA
35Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
36University of Science & Technology of China, Anhui 230027, China
37Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Shanghai 201800, People’s Republic of China
38SUBATECH, Nantes, France
39Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
40University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
41Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
42Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383, USA
43Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064, India
44Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
45University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
46Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
47Institute of Particle Physics, CCNU (HZNU), Wuhan 430079, China
48Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
49University of Zagreb, Zagreb HR-10002, Croatia
Received 2 July 2004; published 23 November 2004
Transverse energy (ET) distributions have been measured for Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV by the STAR Collaboration at RHIC. ET is constructed from its hadronic and electromagnetic components, which have been measured separately. ET production for the most central collisions is well described by several theoretical models whose common feature is large energy density achieved early in the fireball evolution. The magnitude and centrality dependence of ET per charged particle agrees well with measurements at lower collision energy, indicating that the growth in ET for larger collision energy results from the growth in particle production. The electromagnetic fraction of the total ET is consistent with a final state dominated by mesons and independent of centrality.
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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.70.054907
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.70.054907
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