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Publications (20)

nucl-ex2005

Charged-Particle Pseudorapidity Distributions in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=62.4 GeV

B. B. Back, PHOBOS Collaboration

The charged-particle pseudorapidity density for Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=62.4 GeV has been measured over a wide range of impact parameters and compared to results obtained at…

nucl-ex2004

Particle Production at Very Low Transverse Momenta in Au+Au Collisions at s(NN)**1/2 = 200 GeV

PHOBOS Collaboration, B. B. Back

We present results on charged particle production at very low transverse momenta in the 15% most central Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV obtained with the PHOBOS detector…

hep-ex2000

Charged particle multiplicity near mid-rapidity in central Au+Au collisions at 56 and 130 AGeV

B. B. Back, PHOBOS Collaboration

We present the first measurement of pseudorapidity densities of primary charged particles near mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at 56 and 130 AGeV. For the most centra…

nucl-ex2002

Universal Behavior of Charged Particle Production in Heavy Ion Collisions

Peter Steinberg, PHOBOS Collaboration

The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC has measured the multiplicity of primary charged particles as a function of centrality and pseudorapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 19.6, 13…

nucl-ex2002

Universal Behavior of Charged Particle Production in Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC Energies

Peter Steinberg, PHOBOS Collaboration

The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC has measured the multiplicity of primary charged particles as a function of centrality and pseudorapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 19.6, 13…

nucl-ex2006

Forward-Backward Multiplicity Correlations in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Gold-Gold Collisions

B. B. Back, PHOBOS Collaboration

Forward-backward correlations of charged-particle multiplicities in symmetric bins in pseudorapidity are studied in order to gain insight into the underlying correlation structure…

nucl-ex2008

System size, energy, centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of charged-particle density in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at RHIC

PHOBOS Collaboration, G. I. Veres, B. Alver +66

Charged particle pseudorapidity distributions are presented from the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC, measured in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=19.6, 22.4, 62.4, 130 and 200 G…

nucl-ex2008

Scaling properties in bulk and p-dependent particle production near midrapidity in relativistic heavy ion collisions

PHOBOS Collaboration, B. Alver, B. B. Back +56

The centrality dependence of the midrapidity charged-particle multiplicity density (1) is presented for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at RHIC over a broad range of collision…

nucl-ex2001

Charged-particle pseudorapidity density distributions from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN)=130 GeV

PHOBOS Collaboration, B. B. Back

The charged-particle pseudorapidity density dNch/deta has been measured for Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN)=130 GeV at RHIC, using the PHOBOS apparatus. The total number of charged p…

nucl-ex2002

Pseudorapidity and centrality dependence of the collective flow of charged particles in Au+Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN} = 130 GeV

PHOBOS Collaboration, B. B. Back

This paper describes the measurement of collective flow for charged particles in Au+Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN}} = 130 GeV using the PHOBOS detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion C…

nucl-ex2003

Charged hadron transverse momentum distributions in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

B. B. Back, PHOBOS Collaboration

We present transverse momentum distributions of charged hadrons produced in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. The spectra were measured for transverse momenta p_T from 0.25…

nucl-ex2006

Identified hadron transverse momentum spectra in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_(NN))=62.4 GeV

PHOBOS Collaboration, B. B. Back, M. D. Baker +56

Transverse momentum spectra of pions, kaons, protons and antiprotons from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_(NN)) = 62.4 GeV have been measured by the PHOBOS experiment at the Relativisti…

nucl-ex2004

Energy dependence of elliptic flow over a large pseudorapidity range in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

PHOBOS Collaboration

This paper describes the measurement of the energy dependence of elliptic flow for charged particles in Au+Au collisions using the PHOBOS detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Col…

nucl-ex2005

Forward-Backward Multiplicity Correlations in sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV Au+Au Collisions

B. B. Back, PHOBOS Collaboration

Forward-backward correlations of charged-particle multiplicities in symmetric bins in pseudorapidity (eta) are studied in order to gain insight into the underlying correlation stru…

nucl-ex2002

Charged hadron transverse momentum distributions in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV

PHOBOS Collaboration, Gerrit J. van Nieuwenhuizen

We present transverse momentum distributions of charged hadrons produced in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV. The evolution of the spectra for transverse momenta $p…

nucl-ex2005

Comment on "Quantum Opacity, the RHIC HBT Puzzle, and the Chiral Phase Transition"

PHOBOS Collaboration, B. B. Back

We are submitting a comment on the paper "Quantum Opacity, the RHIC HBT Puzzle, and the Chiral Phase Transition" by J.G. Cramer, G.A. Miller, J.M.S. Wu and J. Yoon, published in Ph…

nucl-ex2003

Ratios of charged antiparticles to particles near mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

PHOBOS Collaboration, B. B. Back

The ratios of charged antiparticles to particles have been obtained for pions, kaons and protons near midrapidity in central Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. Ratios of <pi…

nucl-ex2008

Non-flow correlations and elliptic flow fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200GeV

PHOBOS Collaboration, B. Alver, B. B. Back +66

We present first results on event-by-event elliptic flow fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions corrected for effects of non-flow correlations where the magnitude of non-flow c…

nucl-ex2002

Centrality Dependence of the Charged Particle Multiplicity near Mid-Rapidity in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 and 200 GeV

B. B. Back, PHOBOS Collaboration

The PHOBOS experiment has measured the charged particle multiplicity at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV as a function of the collision centrality. Results…

nucl-ex2003

Comparison of the Total Charged-Particle Multiplicity in High-Energy Heavy Ion Collisions with e+e- and pp/pbar-p Data

B. B. Back, PHOBOS Collaboration

The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC has measured the total multiplicity of primary charged particles as a function of collision centrality in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 19.6, 130 a…