Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
1998-07-23
Phys.Rev. C59 (1999) 3324-3328
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
Enlarged discussion, new references added, includes new analysis of pi-/pi+ at AGS energies. 12 pages 5 figures, uses LaTex an
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.59.3324
We compute the Coulomb effects produced by an expanding, highly charged fireball on the momentum distribution of pions. We compare our results to data on Au+Au at 11.6 A GeV from E866 at the BNL AGS and to data on Pb+Pb at 158 A GeV from NA44 at the CERN SPS. We conclude that the distortion of the spectra at low transverse momentum and mid-rapidity can be explained in both experiments by the effect of the large amount of participating charge in the central rapidity region. By adjusting the fireball expansion velocity to match the average transverse momentum of protons, we find a best fit when the fireball radius is about 10 fm, as determined by the moment when the pions undergo their last scattering. This value is common to both the AGS and CERN experiments.
Ayala Alejandro
Jeon Sangyong
Kapusta Joseph
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