Energy and system size dependence of φmeson production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions

Details Energy and system size dependence of φmeson production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions Energy and system size dependence of φmeson production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions

2008-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/0810.4979v1

Phys.Lett.B673:183-191,2009

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

20 pages and 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2009.02.037

We study the beam-energy and system-size dependence of \phi meson production (using the hadronic decay mode \phi -- K+K-) by comparing the new results from Cu+Cu collisions and previously reported Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_NN} = 62.4 and 200 GeV measured in the STAR experiment at RHIC. Data presented are from mid-rapidity (|y|<0.5) for 0.4 < pT < 5 GeV/c. At a given beam energy, the transverse momentum distributions for \phi mesons are observed to be similar in yield and shape for Cu+Cu and Au+Au colliding systems with similar average numbers of participating nucleons. The \phi meson yields in nucleus-nucleus collisions, normalised by the average number of participating nucleons, are found to be enhanced relative to those from p+p collisions with a different trend compared to strange baryons. The enhancement for \phi mesons is observed to be higher at \sqrt{s_NN} = 200 GeV compared to 62.4 GeV. These observations for the produced \phi(s\bar{s}) mesons clearly suggest that, at these collision energies, the source of enhancement of strange hadrons is related to the formation of a dense partonic medium in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions and cannot be alone due to canonical suppression of their production in smaller systems.

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