Phys. Rev. Lett.
91,
262302
(2003)
[6 pages]
Pion-Kaon Correlations in Central Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=130 GeV
J. Adams et al. STAR Collaboration
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J. Adams3, C. Adler12, M. M. Aggarwal25, Z. Ahammed28, J. Amonett17, B. D. Anderson17, M. Anderson5, D. Arkhipkin11, G. S. Averichev10, S. K. Badyal16, J. Balewski13, O. Barannikova28,10, L. S. Barnby17, J. Baudot15, S. Bekele24, V. V. Belaga10, R. Bellwied41, J. Berger12, B. I. Bezverkhny43, S. Bhardwaj29, P. Bhaskar38, A. K. Bhati25, H. Bichsel40, A. Billmeier41, L. C. Bland2, C. O. Blyth3, B. E. Bonner30, M. Botje23, A. Boucham34, A. Brandin21, A. Bravar2, R. V. Cadman1, X. Z. Cai33, H. Caines43, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez2, J. Carroll18, J. Castillo18, M. Castro41, D. Cebra5, P. Chaloupka9, S. Chattopadhyay38, H. F. Chen32, Y. Chen6, S. P. Chernenko10, M. Cherney8, A. Chikanian43, B. Choi36, W. Christie2, J. P. Coffin15, T. M. Cormier41, J. G. Cramer40, H. J. Crawford4, D. Das38, S. Das38, A. A. Derevschikov27, L. Didenko2, T. Dietel12, X. Dong32,18, J. E. Draper5, F. Du43, A. K. Dubey14, V. B. Dunin10, J. C. Dunlop2, M. R. Dutta Majumdar38, V. Eckardt19, L. G. Efimov10, V. 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Westfall20, C. Whitten, Jr.6, H. Wieman18, R. Willson24, S. W. Wissink13, R. Witt43, J. Wood6, J. Wu32, N. Xu18, Z. Xu2, Z. Z. Xu32, A. E. Yakutin27, E. Yamamoto18, J. Yang6, P. Yepes30, V. I. Yurevich10, Y. V. Zanevski10, I. Zborovský9, H. Zhang43,2, H. Y. Zhang17, W. M. Zhang17, Z. P. Zhang32, P. A. Żołnierczuk13, R. Zoulkarneev11, J. Zoulkarneeva11, and A. N. Zubarev10 (STAR Collaboration)
1Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
2Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
3University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
4University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
5University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
6University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
7Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
8Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, USA
9Nuclear Physics Institute AS CR, Řež/Prague, Czech Republic
10Laboratory for High Energy (JINR), Dubna, Russia
11Particle Physics Laboratory (JINR), Dubna, Russia
12University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
13Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408, USA
14Insitute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 751005, India
15Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, Strasbourg, France
16University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
17Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
18Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
19Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany
20Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
21Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
22City College of New York, New York City, New York 10031, USA
23NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
24The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
25Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
26Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
27Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
28Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
29University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, India
30Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251, USA
31Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
32University of Science & Technology of China, Anhui 230027, China
33Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research, Shanghai 201800, People’s Republic of China
34SUBATECH, Nantes, France
35Texas A & M, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
36University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
37Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383, USA
38Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064, India
39Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
40University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
41Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
42Institute of Particle Physics, CCNU (HZNU), Wuhan, 430079 China
43Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
44University of Zagreb, Zagreb, HR-10002, Croatia
Received 30 July 2003; published 31 December 2003
Pion-kaon correlation functions are constructed from central Au+Au STAR data taken at √sNN=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.
© 2003 The American Physical Society
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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.262302
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.262302
*Electronic address: www.star.bnl.gov
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