Correlated Production of p and anti-p in Au+Au Collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV
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Correlations between p and pbar's at transverse momenta typical of enhanced baryon production in Au+Au collisions are reported. The PHENIX experiment measures same and opposite sign baryon pairs in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. Correlated production of p and p^bar with the trigger particle from the range 2.5 < p_T < 4.0 GeV/c and the associated particle with 1.8 < p_T < 2.5 GeV/c is observed to be nearly independent of the centrality of the collisions. Same sign pairs show no correlation at any centrality. The conditional yield of mesons triggered by baryons (and anti-baryons) and mesons in the same pT range rises with increasing centrality, except for the most central collisions, where baryons show a significantly smaller number of associated mesons. These data are consistent with a picture in which hard scattered partons produce correlated p and p^bar in the p_T region of the baryon excess.- 25.75.Dw
- nucleus nucleus: colliding beams
- scattering: heavy ion
- gold
- jet: hadroproduction
- hadron: multiple production
- p: multiple production
- p: hadroproduction
- anti-p: hadroproduction
- angular correlation: two-particle
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