Pion-Kaon correlations in central Au+Au collisions at square root [sNN] = 130 GeV

J Adams; C Adler; M M Aggarwal; Z Ahammed; J Amonett; B D Anderson; M Anderson; D Arkhipkin; G S Averichev; S K Badyal; J Balewski; O Barannikova; L S Barnby; J Baudot; S Bekele; V V Belaga; R Bellwied; J Berger; B I Bezverkhny; S Bhardwaj; P Bhaskar; A K Bhati; H Bichsel; A Billmeier; L C Bland; C O Blyth; B E Bonner; M Botje; A Boucham; A Brandin; A Bravar; R V Cadman; X Z Cai; H Caines; M Calderón de la Barca Sánchez; J Carroll; J Castillo; M Castro; D Cebra; P Chaloupka; S Chattopadhyay; H F Chen; Y Chen; S P Chernenko; M Cherney; A Chikanian; B Choi; W Christie; J P Coffin; T M Cormier; J G Cramer; H J Crawford; D Das; S Das; A A Derevschikov; L Didenko; T Dietel; X Dong; J E Draper; F Du; A K Dubey; V B Dunin; J C Dunlop; M R Dutta Majumdar; V Eckardt; L G Efimov; V Emelianov; J Engelage; G Eppley; B Erazmus; P Fachini; V Faine; J Faivre; R Fatemi; K Filimonov; P Filip; E Finch; Y Fisyak; D Flierl; K J Foley; J Fu; C A Gagliardi; M S Ganti; T D Gutierrez; N Gagunashvili; J Gans; L Gaudichet; M Germain; F Geurts; V Ghazikhanian; P Ghosh; J E Gonzalez; O Grachov; V Grigoriev; S Gronstal; D Grosnick; M Guedon; S M Guertin; A Gupta; E Gushin; T J Hallman; D Hardtke; J W Harris; M Heinz; T W Henry; S Heppelmann; T Herston; B Hippolyte; A Hirsch; E Hjort; G W Hoffmann; M Horsley; H Z Huang; S L Huang; T J Humanic; G Igo; A Ishihara; P Jacobs; W W Jacobs; M Janik; I Johnson; P G Jones; E G Judd; S Kabana; M Kaneta; M Kaplan; D Keane; J Kiryluk; A Kisiel; J Klay; S R Klein; A Klyachko; D D Koetke; T Kollegger; A S Konstantinov; M Kopytine; L Kotchenda; A D Kovalenko; M Kramer; P Kravtsov; K Krueger; C Kuhn; A I Kulikov; A Kumar; G J Kunde; C L Kunz; R Kh Kutuev; A A Kuznetsov; M A C Lamont; J M Landgraf; S Lange; C P Lansdell; B Lasiuk; F Laue; J Lauret; A Lebedev; R Lednický; V M Leontiev; M J LeVine; C Li; Q Li; S J Lindenbaum; M A Lisa; F Liu; L Liu; Z Liu; Q J Liu; T Ljubicic; W J Llope; H Long; R S Longacre; M Lopez-Noriega; W A Love; T Ludlam; D Lynn; J Ma; Y G Ma; D Magestro; S Mahajan; L K Mangotra; D P Mahapatra; R Majka; R Manweiler; S Margetis; C Markert; L Martin; J Marx; H S Matis; Yu A Matulenko; T S McShane; F Meissner; Yu Melnick; A Meschanin; M Messer; M L Miller; Z Milosevich; N G Minaev; C Mironov; D Mishra; J Mitchell; B Mohanty; L Molnar; C F Moore; M J Mora-Corral; V Morozov; M M de Moura; M G Munhoz; B K Nandi; S K Nayak; T K Nayak; J M Nelson; P Nevski; V A Nikitin; L V Nogach; B Norman; S B Nurushev; G Odyniec; A Ogawa; V Okorokov; M Oldenburg; D Olson; G Paic; S U Pandey; S K Pal; Y Panebratsev; S Y Panitkin; A I Pavlinov; T Pawlak; V Perevoztchikov; W Peryt; V A Petrov; S C Phatak; R Picha; M Planinic; J Pluta; N Porile; J Porter; A M Poskanzer; M Potekhin; E Potrebenikova; B V K S Potukuchi; D Prindle; C Pruneau; J Putschke; G Rai; G Rakness; R Raniwala; S Raniwala; O Ravel; R L Ray; S V Razin; D Reichhold; J G Reid; G Renault; F Retiere; A Ridiger; H G Ritter; J B Roberts; O V Rogachevski; J L Romero; A Rose; C Roy; L J Ruan; V Rykov; R Sahoo; I Sakrejda; S Salur; J Sandweiss; I Savin; J Schambach; R P Scharenberg; N Schmitz; L S Schroeder; K Schweda; J Seger; D Seliverstov; P Seyboth; E Shahaliev; M Shao; M Sharma; K E Shestermanov; S S Shimanskii; R N Singaraju; F Simon; G Skoro; N Smirnov; R Snellings; G Sood; P Sorensen; J Sowinski; H M Spinka; B Srivastava; S Stanislaus; R Stock; A Stolpovsky; M Strikhanov; B Stringfellow; C Struck; A A P Suaide; E Sugarbaker; C Suire; M Sumbera; B Surrow; T J M Symons; A Szanto de Toledo; P Szarwas; A Tai; J Takahashi; A H Tang; D Thein; J H Thomas; V Tikhomirov; M Tokarev; M B Tonjes; T A Trainor; S Trentalange; R E Tribble; M D Trivedi; V Trofimov; O Tsai; T Ullrich; D G Underwood; G Van Buren; A M VanderMolen; A N Vasiliev; M Vasiliev; S E Vigdor; Y P Viyogi; S A Voloshin; W Waggoner; F Wang; G Wang; X L Wang; Z M Wang; H Ward; J W Watson; R Wells; G D Westfall; C Whitten Jr; H Wieman; R Willson; S W Wissink; R Witt; J Wood; J Wu; N Xu; Z Xu; Z Z Xu; A E Yakutin; E Yamamoto; J Yang; P Yepes; V I Yurevich; Y V Zanevski; I Zborovský; H Zhang; H Y Zhang; W M Zhang; Z P Zhang; P A Zołnierczuk; R Zoulkarneev; J Zoulkarneeva; A N Zubarev; STAR Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.262302

Pion-Kaon correlations in central Au+Au collisions at square root [sNN] = 130 GeV

Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Dec 31;91(26 Pt 1):262302. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.262302. Epub 2003 Dec 31.

Authors

J Adams¹, C Adler, M M Aggarwal, Z Ahammed, J Amonett, B D Anderson, M Anderson, D Arkhipkin, G S Averichev, S K Badyal, J Balewski, O Barannikova, L S Barnby, J Baudot, S Bekele, V V Belaga, R Bellwied, J Berger, B I Bezverkhny, S Bhardwaj, P Bhaskar, A K Bhati, H Bichsel, A Billmeier, L C Bland, C O Blyth, B E Bonner, M Botje, A Boucham, A Brandin, A Bravar, R V Cadman, X Z Cai, H Caines, M Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, J Carroll, J Castillo, M Castro, D Cebra, P Chaloupka, S Chattopadhyay, H F Chen, Y Chen, S P Chernenko, M Cherney, A Chikanian, B Choi, W Christie, J P Coffin, T M Cormier, J G Cramer, H J Crawford, D Das, S Das, A A Derevschikov, L Didenko, T Dietel, X Dong, J E Draper, F Du, A K Dubey, V B Dunin, J C Dunlop, M R Dutta Majumdar, V Eckardt, L G Efimov, V Emelianov, J Engelage, G Eppley, B Erazmus, P Fachini, V Faine, J Faivre, R Fatemi, K Filimonov, P Filip, E Finch, Y Fisyak, D Flierl, K J Foley, J Fu, C A Gagliardi, M S Ganti, T D Gutierrez, N Gagunashvili, J Gans, L Gaudichet, M Germain, F Geurts, V Ghazikhanian, P Ghosh, J E Gonzalez, O Grachov, V Grigoriev, S Gronstal, D Grosnick, M Guedon, S M Guertin, A Gupta, E Gushin, T J Hallman, D Hardtke, J W Harris, M Heinz, T W Henry, S Heppelmann, T Herston, B Hippolyte, A Hirsch, E Hjort, G W Hoffmann, M Horsley, H Z Huang, S L Huang, T J Humanic, G Igo, A Ishihara, P Jacobs, W W Jacobs, M Janik, I Johnson, P G Jones, E G Judd, S Kabana, M Kaneta, M Kaplan, D Keane, J Kiryluk, A Kisiel, J Klay, S R Klein, A Klyachko, D D Koetke, T Kollegger, A S Konstantinov, M Kopytine, L Kotchenda, A D Kovalenko, M Kramer, P Kravtsov, K Krueger, C Kuhn, A I Kulikov, A Kumar, G J Kunde, C L Kunz, R Kh Kutuev, A A Kuznetsov, M A C Lamont, J M Landgraf, S Lange, C P Lansdell, B Lasiuk, F Laue, J Lauret, A Lebedev, R Lednický, V M Leontiev, M J LeVine, C Li, Q Li, S J Lindenbaum, M A Lisa, F Liu, L Liu, Z Liu, Q J Liu, T Ljubicic, W J Llope, H Long, R S Longacre, M Lopez-Noriega, W A Love, T Ludlam, D Lynn, J Ma, Y G Ma, D Magestro, S Mahajan, L K Mangotra, D P Mahapatra, R Majka, R Manweiler, S Margetis, C Markert, L Martin, J Marx, H S Matis, Yu A Matulenko, T S McShane, F Meissner, Yu Melnick, A Meschanin, M Messer, M L Miller, Z Milosevich, N G Minaev, C Mironov, D Mishra, J Mitchell, B Mohanty, L Molnar, C F Moore, M J Mora-Corral, V Morozov, M M de Moura, M G Munhoz, B K Nandi, S K Nayak, T K Nayak, J M Nelson, P Nevski, V A Nikitin, L V Nogach, B Norman, S B Nurushev, G Odyniec, A Ogawa, V Okorokov, M Oldenburg, D Olson, G Paic, S U Pandey, S K Pal, Y Panebratsev, S Y Panitkin, A I Pavlinov, T Pawlak, V Perevoztchikov, W Peryt, V A Petrov, S C Phatak, R Picha, M Planinic, J Pluta, N Porile, J Porter, A M Poskanzer, M Potekhin, E Potrebenikova, B V K S Potukuchi, D Prindle, C Pruneau, J Putschke, G Rai, G Rakness, R Raniwala, S Raniwala, O Ravel, R L Ray, S V Razin, D Reichhold, J G Reid, G Renault, F Retiere, A Ridiger, H G Ritter, J B Roberts, O V Rogachevski, J L Romero, A Rose, C Roy, L J Ruan, V Rykov, R Sahoo, I Sakrejda, S Salur, J Sandweiss, I Savin, J Schambach, R P Scharenberg, N Schmitz, L S Schroeder, K Schweda, J Seger, D Seliverstov, P Seyboth, E Shahaliev, M Shao, M Sharma, K E Shestermanov, S S Shimanskii, R N Singaraju, F Simon, G Skoro, N Smirnov, R Snellings, G Sood, P Sorensen, J Sowinski, H M Spinka, B Srivastava, S Stanislaus, R Stock, A Stolpovsky, M Strikhanov, B Stringfellow, C Struck, A A P Suaide, E Sugarbaker, C Suire, M Sumbera, B Surrow, T J M Symons, A Szanto de Toledo, P Szarwas, A Tai, J Takahashi, A H Tang, D Thein, J H Thomas, V Tikhomirov, M Tokarev, M B Tonjes, T A Trainor, S Trentalange, R E Tribble, M D Trivedi, V Trofimov, O Tsai, T Ullrich, D G Underwood, G Van Buren, A M VanderMolen, A N Vasiliev, M Vasiliev, S E Vigdor, Y P Viyogi, S A Voloshin, W Waggoner, F Wang, G Wang, X L Wang, Z M Wang, H Ward, J W Watson, R Wells, G D Westfall, C Whitten Jr, H Wieman, R Willson, S W Wissink, R Witt, J Wood, J Wu, N Xu, Z Xu, Z Z Xu, A E Yakutin, E Yamamoto, J Yang, P Yepes, V I Yurevich, Y V Zanevski, I Zborovský, H Zhang, H Y Zhang, W M Zhang, Z P Zhang, P A Zołnierczuk, R Zoulkarneev, J Zoulkarneeva, A N Zubarev; STAR Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

PMID: 14754044
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.262302

Abstract

Pion-kaon correlation functions are constructed from central Au+Au STAR data taken at sqrt[s(NN)]=130 GeV by the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The results suggest that pions and kaons are not emitted at the same average space-time point. Space-momentum correlations, i.e., transverse flow, lead to a space-time emission asymmetry of pions and kaons that is consistent with the data. This result provides new independent evidence that the system created at RHIC undergoes a collective transverse expansion.