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Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4778–4782 (2001)

Midrapidity Antiproton-to-Proton Ratio from Au+Au Collisions at sNN = 130GeV

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C. Adler et al.
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Received 27 December 2000; published in the issue dated 21 May 2001

We report results on the ratio of midrapidity antiproton-to-proton yields in Au+Au collisions at sNN = 130GeV per nucleon pair as measured by the STAR experiment at RHIC. Within the rapidity and transverse momentum range of |y|<0.5 and 0.4<pt<1.0GeV/c, the ratio is essentially independent of either transverse momentum or rapidity, with an average of 0.65±0.01(stat)±0.07(syst) for minimum bias collisions. Within errors, no strong centrality dependence is observed. The results indicate that at this RHIC energy, although the p-p̅ pair production becomes important at midrapidity, a significant excess of baryons over antibaryons is still present.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4778
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4778
PACS:
25.75.Ld

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Erratum: C. Adler et al., Erratum: Midrapidity Antiproton-to-Proton Ratio from Au+Au Collisions at sNN=130  GeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4778 (2001)], Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 119903 (2003).