K*0 production in Au+Au collisions at sNN=7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV from the RHIC beam energy scan

Collaboration
Oct 6, 2022
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 107 (2023) 3, 034907
  • Published: Mar 14, 2023
e-Print:
DOI:
Experiments:

Citations per year

20152018202120242025012345
Abstract: (APS)
We report the measurement of K*0 meson at midrapidity (|y|< 1.0) in Au+Au collisions at sNN=7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV collected by the STAR experiment during the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) beam energy scan program. The transverse momentum spectra, yield, and average transverse momentum of K*0 are presented as functions of collision centrality and beam energy. The K*0/K yield ratios are presented for different collision centrality intervals and beam energies. The K*0/K ratio in heavy-ion collisions are observed to be smaller than that in small-system collisions (e+e and p+p). The K*0/K ratio follows a similar centrality dependence to that observed in previous RHIC and Large Hadron Collider measurements. The data favor the scenario of the dominance of hadronic rescattering over regeneration for K*0 production in the hadronic phase of the medium.
Note:
  • 17 pages, 12 figures
  • beam: energy
  • yield: ratio
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • transverse momentum: momentum spectrum
  • Brookhaven RHIC Coll
  • STAR
  • quantum chromodynamics: matter
  • freeze-out: kinetic
  • regeneration
  • CERN LHC Coll