Freeze-out dynamics via charged kaon femtoscopy in root sNN=200 GeV central Au plus Au collisions Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present measurements of three-dimensional correlation functions of like-sign, low-transverse-momentum kaon pairs from sNN=200 GeV Au+Au collisions. A Cartesian surface-spherical harmonic decomposition technique was used to extract the kaon source function. The latter was found to have a three-dimensional Gaussian shape and can be adequately reproduced by Therminator event-generator simulations with resonance contributions taken into account. Compared to the pion one, the kaon source function is generally narrower and does not have the long tail along the pair transverse momentum direction. The kaon Gaussian radii display a monotonic decrease with increasing transverse mass mT over the interval of 0.55mT1.15 GeV/c2. While the kaon radii are adequately described by the mT -scaling in the outward and sideward directions, in the longitudinal direction the lowest mT value exceeds the expectations from a pure hydrodynamical model prediction. 2013 American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW C

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., ... Zyzak, M.

citation count

  • 16

complete list of authors

  • Adamczyk, L||Adkins, JK||Agakishiev, G||Aggarwal, MM||Ahammed, Z||Alekseev, I||Alford, J||Anson, CD||Aparin, A||Arkhipkin, D||Aschenauer, E||Averichev, GS||Balewski, J||Banerjee, A||Barnovska, Z||Beavis, DR||Bellwied, R||Betancourt, MJ||Betts, RR||Bhasin, A||Bhati, AK||Bichsel, H||Bielcik, J||Bielcikova, J||Bland, LC||Bordyuzhin, IG||Borowski, W||Bouchet, J||Brandin, AV||Brovko, SG||Bruna, E||Bueltmann, S||Bunzarov, I||Burton, TP||Butterworth, J||Caines, H||Sanchez, M Calderon de la Barca||Cebra, D||Cendejas, R||Cervantes, MC||Chaloupka, P||Chang, Z||Chattopadhyay, S||Chen, HF||Chen, JH||Chen, JY||Chen, L||Cheng, J||Cherney, M||Chikanian, A||Christie, W||Chung, P||Chwastowski, J||Codrington, MJM||Corliss, R||Cramer, JG||Crawford, HJ||Cui, X||Das, S||Leyva, A Davila||De Silva, LC||Debbe, RR||Dedovich, TG||Deng, J||Derradi De Souza, R||Dhamija, S||di Ruzza, B||Didenko, L||Ding, F||Dion, A||Djawotho, P||Dong, X||Drachenberg, JL||Draper, JE||Du, CM||Dunkelberger, LE||Dunlop, JC||Efimov, LG||Elnimr, M||Engelage, J||Engle, KS||Eppley, G||Eun, L||Evdokimov, O||Fatemi, R||Fazio, S||Fedorisin, J||Fersch, RG||Filip, P||Finch, E||Fisyak, Y||Flores, CE||Gagliardi, CA||Gangadharan, DR||Garand, D||Geurts, F||Gibson, A||Gliske, S||Grebenyuk, G||Grosnick, D||Guo, Y||Gupta, A||Gupta, S||Guryn, W||Haag, B||Hajkova, O||Hamed, A||Han, L-X||Haque, R||Harris, JW||Hays-Wehle, JP||Heppelmann, S||Hirsch, A||Hoffmann, GW||Hofman, DJ||Horvat, S||Huang, B||Huang, HZ||Huck, P||Humanic, TJ||Igo, G||Jacobs, WW||Jena, C||Judd, EG||Kabana, S||Kang, K||Kauder, K||Ke, HW||Keane, D||Kechechyan, A||Kesich, A||Kikola, DP||Kiryluk, J||Kisel, I||Kisiel, A||Koetke, DD||Kollegger, T||Konzer, J||Koralt, I||Korsch, W||Kotchenda, L||Kravtsov, P||Krueger, K||Kulakov, I||Kumar, L||Kycia, RA||Lamont, MAC||Landgraf, JM||Landry, KD||LaPointe, S||Lauret, J||Lebedev, A||Lednicky, R||Lee, JH||Leight, W||LeVine, MJ||Li, C||Li, W||Li, X||Li, X||Li, Y||Li, ZM||Lima, LM||Lisa, MA||Liu, F||Ljubicic, T||Llope, WJ||Longacre, RS||Luo, X||Ma, GL||Ma, YG||Don, DMMD Madagodagettige||Mahapatra, DP||Majka, R||Margetis, S||Markert, C||Masui, H||Matis, HS||McDonald, D||McShane, TS||Mioduszewski, S||Mitrovski, MK||Mohammed, Y||Mohanty, B||Mondal, MM||Munhoz, MG||Mustafa, MK||Naglis, M||Nandi, BK||Nasim, Md||Nayak, TK||Nelson, JM||Nogach, LV||Novak, J||Odyniec, G||Ogawa, A||Oh, K||Ohlson, A||Okorokov, V||Oldag, EW||Oliveira, RAN||Olson, D||Pachr, M||Page, BS||Pal, SK||Pan, YX||Pandit, Y||Panebratsev, Y||Pawlak, T||Pawlik, B||Pei, H||Perkins, C||Peryt, W||Pile, P||Planinic, M||Pluta, J||Plyku, D||Poljak, N||Porter, J||Poskanzer, AM||Powell, CB||Pruneau, C||Pruthi, NK||Przybycien, M||Pujahari, PR||Putschke, J||Qiu, H||Ramachandran, S||Raniwala, R||Raniwala, S||Ray, RL||Riley, CK||Ritter, HG||Roberts, JB||Rogachevskiy, OV||Romero, JL||Ross, JF||Roy, A||Ruan, L||Rusnak, J||Sahoo, NR||Sahu, PK||Sakrejda, I||Salur, S||Sandacz, A||Sandweiss, J||Sangaline, E||Sarkar, A||Schambach, J||Scharenberg, RP||Schmah, AM||Schmidke, B||Schmitz, N||Schuster, TR||Seger, J||Seyboth, P||Shah, N||Shahaliev, E||Shao, M||Sharma, B||Sharma, M||Shen, WQ||Shi, SS||Shou, QY||Sichtermann, EP||Singaraju, RN||Skoby, MJ||Smirnov, D||Smirnov, N||Solanki, D||Sorensen, P||deSouza, UG||Spinka, HM||Srivastava, B||Stanislaus, TDS||Stevens, JR||Stock, R||Strikhanov, M||Stringfellow, B||Suaide, AAP||Suarez, MC||Sumbera, M||Sun, XM||Sun, Y||Sun, Z||Surrow, B||Svirida, DN||Symons, TJM||Szanto de Toledo, A||Takahashi, J||Tang, AH||Tang, Z||Tarini, LH||Tarnowsky, T||Thomas, JH||Timmins, AR||Tlusty, D||Tokarev, M||Trentalange, S||Tribble, RE||Tribedy, P||Trzeciak, BA||Tsai, OD||Turnau, J||Ullrich, T||Underwood, DG||Van Buren, G||van Nieuwenhuizen, G||Vanfossen, JA Jr||Varma, R||Vasconcelos, GMS||Vertesi, R||Videbaek, F||Viyogi, YP||Vokal, S||Voloshin, SA||Vossen, A||Wada, M||Walker, M||Wang, F||Wang, G||Wang, H||Wang, JS||Wang, Q||Wang, XL||Wang, Y||Webb, G||Webb, JC||Westfall, GD||Wieman, H||Wissink, SW||Witt, R||Wu, YF||Xiao, Z||Xie, W||Xin, K||Xu, H||Xu, N||Xu, QH||Xu, W||Xu, Y||Xu, Z||Yang, C||Yang, Y||Yang, Y||Yepes, P||Yi, L||Yip, K||Yoo, I-K||Zawisza, Y||Zbroszczyk, H||Zha, W||Zhang, JB||Zhang, S||Zhang, XP||Zhang, Y||Zhang, ZP||Zhao, F||Zhao, J||Zhong, C||Zhu, X||Zhu, YH||Zoulkarneeva, Y||Zyzak, M

publication date

  • September 2013