COLLECTIVE EXPANSION IN HIGH-ENERGY HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS

Authors
BEARDEN IG BOGGILD H BOISSEVAIN J DODD J ERAZMUS B ESUMI S FABJAN CW FERENC D FIELDS DE FRANZ A GAARDHOJE JJ HANSEN AG HANSEN O HARDTKE D VANHECKE H HOLZER EB HUMANIC TJ HUMMEL P JACAK BV JAYANTI R KALECHOFSKY H KANETA M KOPYTINE M LEE YY LELTCHOUK M LJUBICIC T LORSTAD B MAEDA N MALINA R MEDVEDEV A MURRAY M NISHIMURA S OHNISHI H PAIC G PANDEY SU PIUZ F PLUTA J POLYCHRONAKOS V POTEKHIN M POULARD G REICHHOLD D SAKAGUCHI A SIMONGILLO J SCHMIDTSORENSEN J SONDHEIM W SPEGEL M SUGITATE T SULLIVAN JP SUMI Y WILLIS WJ WOLF K XU N ZACHARY DS
Citation
Ig. Bearden et al., COLLECTIVE EXPANSION IN HIGH-ENERGY HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS, Physical review letters, 78(11), 1997, pp. 2080-2083
Citations number
34
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
78
Issue
11
Year of publication
1997
Pages
2080 - 2083
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1997)78:11<2080:CEIHHC>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
Transverse mass spectra of pions, kaons, and protons from the symmetri c heavy-ion collisions 200A GeV S + S and 158A GeV Pb + Pb, measured i n the NA44 focusing spectrometer at CERN, are presented. The mass depe ndence of the slope parameters provides evidence of collective transve rse flow from expansion of the system in heavy-ion induced central col lisions.