Charged Meson Rapidity Distributions in central Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_nn) = 200 GeV

Abstract

We have measured rapidity densities dN/dy of pions and kaons over a broad rapidity range (-0.1 < y < 3.5) for central Au+Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 200 GeV. These data have significant implications for the chemistry and dynamics of the dense system that is initially created in the collisions. The full phase-space yields are 1660 +/- 15 +/- 133 (pi+), 1683 +/- 16 +/- 135 (pi-), 286 +/- 5 +/- 23 (K+) and 242 +/- 4 +/- 19 (K-). The systematics of the strange to non--strange meson ratios are found to track the variation of the baryo-chemical potential with rapidity and energy. Landau--Carruthers hydrodynamic is found to describe the bulk transport of the pions in the longitudinal direction.

4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to Physical Review Letters. Updates : data are now corrected for feed down from Lambda and K0short decays, figures and tables show the corrected data. The text has been cleared and details on corrections to the data added

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