Production of phi Mesons in Au+Au Collisions at 11.7 A GeV/c

Abstract

We report on a measurement of phi-meson production in Au+Au collisions at a beam momentum of 11.7 A GeV/c by Experiment E917 at the AGS. The measurement covers the midrapidity region 1.2 < y < 1.6. Transverse-mass spectra and the rapidity distribution are presented as functions of centrality characterized by the number of participant projectile nucleons. The yield of phi's per participant projectile nucleon increases strongly in central collisions in a manner similar to that observed for kaons.

12 pages, 3 table, 14 eps figures which use \includegraphics, revtex 4, revised version submitted to Phys. Rev. C

Cited by in corpus (38)

• Hadron production in central nucleus-nucleus collisions at chemical freeze-out
• Phi meson production in Au+Au and p+p collisions at sqrt (s)=200 GeV
• Energy dependence of phi meson production in central Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt(s_nn) = 6 to 17 GeV
• Measurements of $\varphi$ meson production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC
• Production of K${}^{\ast }$(892)${}^0$ and $\varphi$(1020) in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV
• Production of phi mesons at mid-rapidity in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC
• Hadron Production and Phase Changes in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
• Equilibrium Statistical-Thermal Models in High-Energy Physics
• Chemical Freeze-out of Strange Particles and Possible Root of Strangeness Suppression
• Simple Solution to the Strangeness Horn Description Puzzle
• Strange hadron production in heavy ion collisions from SPS to RHIC
• Alternative Scenarios of Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions: II. Particle Production
• Strangeness production at SPS energies
• Probing Strangeness Canonical Ensemble with $K^{-}$, $\varphi (1020)$ and ${\Xi }^{-}$ Production in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=3\mathrm{GeV}$
• Nuclear mass number dependence of inclusive production of omega and phi mesons in 12 GeV p + A collisions
• Systematics of chemical freeze-out parameters in heavy-ion collision experiments
• Rise and fall of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda }$ global polarization in semi-central heavy-ion collisions at HADES, NICA and RHIC energies from the core-corona model
• Influence of $\varphi$ mesons on negative kaons in Ni+Ni collisions at 1.91A GeV beam energy
• Measurements of chemical potentials in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV
• Novel scheme for parametrizing the chemical freeze-out surface in Heavy Ion Collision Experiments
• Separate mass scaling of the widths of the rapidity distributions for mesons and baryons at energies available at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion research
• Possible glueball production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
• Collision Energy Dependence of Particle Ratios and Freeze-out Parameters in Ultra Relativistic Nucleus Nucleus Collisions
• Catalytic phi meson production in heavy-ion collisions
• Energy dependence of strangeness production
• Deconfinement energy threshold: analysis of hadron yields at 11.6 A GeV
• $J/\psi$ production in Au+Au collisions at RHIC and the nuclear absorption
• Strangeness production in high-energy collisions and Hawking-Unruh radiation
• Formation of light nuclei at chemical freezeout: Description within a statistical thermal model
• Hierarchy of kinetic freeze-out parameters in low energy heavy-ion collisions
• Study of QGP signatures with the phi->K+K- signal in Pb-Pb ALICE events
• Particle Ratios within EPOS, UrQMD and Thermal Models at AGS, SPS and RHIC Energies
• Determination of the $\varphi$-meson production process and its absorption cross section via directed flow
• Catalytic Reactions in Heavy-ion Collisions
• Probing the QGP Phase Boundary with Thermal Properties of $\varphi$ Mesons
• Possible production of exotic baryonia in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
• Resonance results in 7 TeV pp collisions with the ALICE detector at the LHC
• The QCD Equation of State with Thermal Properties of $\varphi$ mesons