Charged pion production in fixed-target Pb + Pb collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon

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Dec 1999

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New Journal of Physics, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 23 (1999).

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Changes in pion production as a function of the impact parameter of the collision or the incident energy, may reveal characteristics of a possible first-order phase transition from nuclear to quark matter, as predicted by lattice quantum chromodynamics. In this paper we investigate charged pion production in Pb+Pb collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon near 0° production angle and at forward rapidity (4.3≤ 6.3). The centrality dependence of pion production is shown in the impact parameter range ~ 2-12 fm at the rapidities y = 5.7 and 6.3. An enhancement in the π- π+ ratio has been measured near beam rapidity, indicating Coulomb interaction of charged pions with the spectator protons. The charged pion yield per nucleon participating in the collision (Np) at y = 5.7 increases faster than linearly with Np, up to Np~100 and then it saturates, while at y = 6.3 it does not exhibit any sudden change as a function of Np.

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