Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2009-08-19
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
CPOD 2009 Proceedings, NA49 Collaboration, 10 pages
Scientific paper
Proton rapidity distributions have been measured by the NA49 collaboration in 40 and 158 GeV/nucleon Pb+Pb collisions as function of collision centrality. We find that the shape and the yield per wounded nucleon in the mid-rapidity region vary little with centrality and are similar to the distributions obtained from inelastic p+p interactions. This observation is satisfactorily described by the transport models HSD and UrQMD, although there are significant differences in the details of the spectral shape between the experimental data and the models as well as between the models. The approximate invariance of the normalized proton spectrum in the vicinity of mid-rapidity suggests that multiple nucleon-nucleon interactions in nuclear collisions at SPS energies have little effect on the spectra of those final state protons which are slowed down the most.
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