Scaling Properties of Hyperon Production in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

Details Scaling Properties of Hyperon Production in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Scaling Properties of Hyperon Production in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

2006-06-07

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0606014v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.98:062301,2007

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.062301

We present the scaling properties of Lambda, Xi, Omega and their anti-particles produced at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at RHIC at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. The yield of multi-strange baryons per participant nucleon increases from peripheral to central collisions more rapidly than the Lambda yield, which appears to correspond to an increasing strange quark density of matter produced. The value of the strange phase space occupancy factor gamma_s, obtained from a thermal model fit to the data, approaches unity for the most central collisions. We also show that the nuclear modification factors, R_CP, of Lambda and Xi are consistent with each other and with that of protons in the transverse momentum range 2.0 < p_T < 5.0 GeV/c. This scaling behaviour is consistent with a scenario of hadron formation from constituent quark degrees of freedom through quark recombination or coalescence.

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