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Published March 2006 | Published
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Multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles and photons at forward pseudorapidity in Au + Au collisons at √s_(NN) = 62.4 GeV

Abstract

We present the centrality-dependent measurement of multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles and photons in Au+Au collisions at √s_(NN) = 62.4 GeV. The charged particles and photons are measured in the pseudorapidity region 2.9 ≤ η ≤ 3.9 and 2.3 ≤ η ≤ 3.7, respectively. We have studied the scaling of particle production with the number of participating nucleons and the number of binary collisions. The photon and charged particle production in the measured pseudorapidity range has been shown to be consistent with energy-independent limiting fragmentation behavior. Photons are observed to follow a centrality-independent limiting fragmentation behavior, while for charged particles it is centrality dependent. We have carried out a comparative study of the pseudorapidity distributions of positively charged hadrons, negatively charged hadrons, photons, pions, and net protons in nucleus-nucleus collisions and pseudorapidity distributions from p+p collisions. From these comparisons, we conclude that baryons in the inclusive charged particle distribution are responsible for the observed centrality dependence of limiting fragmentation. The mesons are found to follow an energy-independent behavior of limiting fragmentation, whereas the behavior of baryons is energy dependent.

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© 2006 American Physical Society. Received 14 November 2005; published 13 March 2006. We thank S. Jeon for providing us the LEXUS results for comparison and G. Veres for providing us the NA49 data on net protons. We thank the RHIC Operations Group and RCF at BNL, and the NERSC Center at LBNL for their support. We acknowledge the help of CERN for use of GASSIPLEX chips in the PMD readout. This work was supported in part by the HENP Divisions of the Office of Science of the U.S. DOE; the U.S. NSF; the BMBF of Germany; IN2P3, RA, RPL, and EMN of France; EPSRC of the United Kingdom; FAPESP of Brazil; the Russian Ministry of Science and Technology; the Ministry of Education and the NNSFC of China; SFOM of the Czech Republic, FOM and UU of the Netherlands; DAE, DST, and CSIR of the Government of India; the Swiss NSF; the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research; STAA of Slovakia, and the Korea Sci. & Eng. Foundation.

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