Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2007-10-18
Phys.Rev.C76:064908,2007
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
Errata: Section 4, the end of the first paragraph - sentence in brackets modified
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.064908
The preliminary NA49 results on the energy dependence of transverse momentum fluctuations over the whole SPS energy range exhibit an unexpected effect. The $\Phi_{p_{T}}$ fluctuation measure - used by the NA49 experiment - manifests a different behavior for different charge combinations. Whereas the $\Phi_{p_{T}}$ is consistent with zero and independent of energy for negatively charged particles, it significantly increases for both all charged and positively charged particles at lower SPS energies. The string-hadronic model UrQMD is applied here to explain this effect. The UrQMD simulations show that the number of protons is strongly correlated with impact parameter and that the event-by-event impact parameter fluctuations are responsible for the event-by-event transverse momentum fluctuations of positively charged and all charged particles where protons are included. The observations presented in this article are important for all experiments measuring event-by-event fluctuations, especially for those using all charged particles in the analysis. The results can be also crucial for detectors with acceptances extending to the beam/target spectator domains.
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