Phys. Rev. C 79, 034909 (2009) [58 pages]
Systematic measurements of identified particle spectra in pp, d+Au, and Au+Au collisions at the STAR detector
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(STAR Collaboration)
1Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
2University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
3Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
4University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
5University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
6University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
7Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
8Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
9University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA
10Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, USA
11Nuclear Physics Institute AS CR, CZ-25068 Řež/Prague, Czech Republic
12Laboratory for High Energy (JINR), Dubna, Russia
13Particle Physics Laboratory (JINR), Dubna, Russia
14Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 751005, India
15Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
16Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408, USA
17Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, Strasbourg, France
18University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
19Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
20University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40506-0055, USA
21Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
22Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
23Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA
24Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany
25Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
26Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
27City College of New York, New York City, New York 10031, USA
28NIKHEF and Utrecht University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
29Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
30Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
31Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
32Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
33Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
34Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
35University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, India
36Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251, USA
37Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
38University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China
39Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Shanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
40SUBATECH, Nantes, France
41Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
42University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
43Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
44United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland 21402, USA
45Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383, USA
46Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064, India
47Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
48University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
49Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
50Institute of Particle Physics, CCNU (HZNU), Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China
51Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
52University of Zagreb, Zagreb, HR-10002, Croatia
Received 18 August 2008; published 24 March 2009
Identified charged-particle spectra of ±, K±, p, and at midrapidity (|y|<0.1) measured by the dE/dx method in the STAR (solenoidal tracker at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) time projection chamber are reported for pp and d+Au collisions at =200 GeV and for Au+Au collisions at 62.4, 130, and 200 GeV. Average transverse momenta, total particle production, particle yield ratios, strangeness, and baryon production rates are investigated as a function of the collision system and centrality. The transverse momentum spectra are found to be flatter for heavy particles than for light particles in all collision systems; the effect is more prominent for more central collisions. The extracted average transverse momentum of each particle species follows a trend determined by the total charged-particle multiplicity density. The Bjorken energy density estimate is at least several GeV/fm3 for a formation time less than 1 fm/c. A significantly larger net-baryon density and a stronger increase of the net-baryon density with centrality are found in Au+Au collisions at 62.4 GeV than at the two higher energies. Antibaryon production relative to total particle multiplicity is found to be constant over centrality, but increases with the collision energy. Strangeness production relative to total particle multiplicity is similar at the three measured RHIC energies. Relative strangeness production increases quickly with centrality in peripheral Au+Au collisions, to a value about 50% above the pp value, and remains rather constant in more central collisions. Bulk freeze-out properties are extracted from thermal equilibrium model and hydrodynamics-motivated blast-wave model fits to the data. Resonance decays are found to have little effect on the extracted kinetic freeze-out parameters because of the transverse momentum range of our measurements. The extracted chemical freeze-out temperature is constant, independent of collision system or centrality; its value is close to the predicted phase-transition temperature, suggesting that chemical freeze-out happens in the vicinity of hadronization and the chemical freeze-out temperature is universal despite the vastly different initial conditions in the collision systems. The extracted kinetic freeze-out temperature, while similar to the chemical freeze-out temperature in pp, d+Au, and peripheral Au+Au collisions, drops significantly with centrality in Au+Au collisions, whereas the extracted transverse radial flow velocity increases rapidly with centrality. There appears to be a prolonged period of particle elastic scatterings from chemical to kinetic freeze-out in central Au+Au collisions. The bulk properties extracted at chemical and kinetic freeze-out are observed to evolve smoothly over the measured energy range, collision systems, and collision centralities.
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