Freeze-out parameters in central 158A (GeVPb)-Pb-208+Pbcollisions

Authors
Aggarwal, MM Agnihotri, A Ahammed, Z Angelis, ALS Antonenko, V Arefiev, V Astakhov, V Avdeitchikov, V Awes, TC Baba, PVKS Badyal, SK Baldine, A Barabach, L Barlag, C Bathe, S Batiounia, B Bernier, T Bhalla, KB Bhatia, VS Blume, C Bock, R Bohne, EM Borocz, ZK Bucher, D Buijs, A Busching, H Carlen, L Chalyshev, V Chattopadhyay, S Cherbatchev, R Chujo, T Claussen, A Das, AC Decowski, MP Delagrange, H Djordjadze, V Donni, P Doubovik, I Dutt, S Majumdar, MRD El Chenawi, K Eliseev, S Enosawa, K Foka, P Fokin, S Frolov, V Ganti, MS Garpman, S Gavrishchuk, O Geurts, FJM Ghosh, TK Glasow, R Gupta, SK Guskov, B Gustafsson, HA Gutbrod, HH Higuchi, R Hrivnacova, I Ippolitov, M Kalechofsky, H Kamermans, R Kampert, KH Karadjev, K Karpio, K Kato, S Kees, S Kim, H Kolb, BW Kosarev, I Koutcheryaev, I Krumpel, T Kugler, A Kulinich, P Kurata, M Kurita, K Kuzmin, N Langbein, I Lebedev, A Lee, YY Lohner, H Luquin, L Mahapatra, DP Manko, V Martin, M Martinez, G Maximov, A Mehdiyev, R Mgebrichvili, G Miake, Y Mikhalev, D Mir, MF Mishra, GC Miyamoto, Y Morrison, D Mukhopadhyay, DS Myalkovski, V Naef, H Nandi, BK Nayak, SK Nayak, TK Neumaier, S Nianine, A Nikitine, V Nikolaev, S Nilsson, P Nishimura, S Nomokonov, P Nystrand, J Obenshain, FE Oskarsson, A Otterlund, I Pachr, M Parfenov, A Pavliouk, S Peitzmann, T Petracek, V Plasil, F Pinganaud, W Purschke, ML Raeven, B Rak, J Raniwala, R Raniwala, S Ramamurthy, VS Rao, NK Retiere, F Reygers, K Roland, G Rosselet, L Roufanov, I Roy, C Rubio, JM Sako, H Sambyal, SS Santo, R Sato, S Schlagheck, H Schmidt, HR Schutz, Y Shabratova, G Shah, TH Sibiriak, I Siemiarczuk, T Silvermyr, D Sinha, BC Slavine, N Soderstrom, I Solomey, N Sorensen, SP Stankus, P Stefanek, G Steinberg, P Stenlund, E Stuken, D Sumbera, M Svensson, T Trivedi, MD Tsvetkov, A Tykarski, L Urbahn, J von der Pijll, EC von Eijndhoven, N von Nieuwenhuizen, GJ Vinogradov, A Viyogi, YP Vodopianov, A Voros, S Wyslouch, B Yagi, K Yokota, Y Young, GR
Citation
Mm. Aggarwal et al., Freeze-out parameters in central 158A (GeVPb)-Pb-208+Pbcollisions, PHYS REV L, 83(5), 1999, pp. 926-930
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
83
Issue
5
Year of publication
1999
Pages
926 - 930
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(19990802)83:5<926:FPIC1(>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Neutral pion production in central 158A GeV Pb-208 + Pb-208 collisions has been studied in the WA98 experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. T he pi(0) transverse mass spectrum has been analyzed in terms of a thermal m odel with hydrodynamic expansion. The high accuracy and large kinematic cov erage of the measurement allow one to limit previously noted ambiguities in the extracted freeze-out parameters. The results are shown to be sensitive to the shape of the velocity distribution at freeze-out.