System size and energy dependence of $\varphi$ meson production at RHIC

Abstract

We present a system size and energy dependence of $\varphi$ meson production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=62.4 GeV and 200 GeV measured by the STAR experiment at RHIC. We find that the number of participant scaled $\varphi$ meson yields in heavy ion collisions over that of p+p collisions are larger than 1 and increase with collision energy. We compare the results with those of open-strange particles and discuss the physics implication.

proceeding for the Quark Matter Conference 2008 at Jaipur India

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