FIRST RESULTS FROM THE PHOBOS EXPERIMENT AT THE RHIC COLLIDER

J Katzy ,S G Steadman,P Sarin,C Vale,C Halliwell,R Verdier,A H Wuosmaa,A Budzanowski,D Mcleod,S Gushue,A Sukhanov,P Kulinich,B B Back,F L H Wolfs,R Pak,W Skulski,M D Baker,G A Heintzelman,S Manly,E Johnson,M P Decowski,P Sawicki,N George,R Teng,J Muelmenstaedt,R Bindel,K Gulbrandsen,L P Remsberg,M Stodulski ,H Pernegger ,I C Park ,J L Kane ,P Steinberg ,M Reuter ,A Carroll ,A Trzupek ,B K Wosiek ,W Busza ,C Henderson ,G J Van Nieuwenhuizen ,A C Mignerey ,A Olszewski ,D S Barton ,D J Hofman ,B Wadsworth ,R Nouicer ,R R Betts ,G S F Stephans ,C Reed ,K W Woźniak ,J Michałowski ,E Oliver Garcia ,R Hołyński ,J L Tang ,B Holzman ,L J Rosenberg ,W Kucewicz ,W Lin ,C Roland ,G Roland ,B Wysłouch

doi:10.1142/s0217751x0100948x

Abstract

PHOBOS is one of the four experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider that started colliding gold nuclei at a center of mass energy of √sNN = 56 and 130 GeV per pair of colliding nucleons in June 2000. The pseudorapidity density of primary charged particles in central collisions has been measured near mid-rapidity.

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