Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
1999-02-19
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
5 pages, 13 figures, submitted for publication to Phys. Rev. Lett., Formatted with RevTex
Scientific paper
First results are presented from BNL experiment E910 on pion production and stopping in proton-Be, Cu, and Au collisions at a beam momentum of 18 GeV/c. We characterize the centrality of the collisions using the measured number of "grey" tracks, Ngrey,and a derived quantity, nu, the number of inelastic nucleon-nucleon scatterings suffered by the projectile during the collision. We find that for the three targets the average backward rapidity shift of the leading proton follows a common trend versus nu with the projectile losing, on average, 2 units of rapidity in the first 2-3 scatterings. The average rapidity shift increases more slowly with subsequent scatterings reaching a maximum of 2.5 units. The pi- multiplicity measured within the E910 acceptance saturates with increasing nu in p-Au collisions while the pi- multiplicity in p-Be collisions increases faster with nu than expected from the wounded-nucleon model. Comparisons of our data with the RQMD cascade model suggest that in very central p-Au collisions most of the pions are produced near zero rapidity in the lab.
Chemakin I.
Cianciolo Vince
Cole Brian A.
Fernow R.
Frawley Anthony
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