Near-side azimuthal and pseudorapidity correlations using neutral strange baryons and mesons in d+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV

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Mar 17, 2016
9 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.C 94 (2016) 1, 014910
  • Published: Jul 28, 2016
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Abstract: (APS)
We present measurements of the near side of triggered di-hadron correlations using neutral strange baryons (Λ,Λ¯) and mesons (KS0) at intermediate transverse momentum (3 < pT <6 GeV/c) to look for possible flavor and baryon-meson dependence. This study is performed in d+Au, Cu+Cu, and Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV measured by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The near-side di-hadron correlation contains two structures, a peak which is narrow in azimuth and pseudorapidity consistent with correlations from jet fragmentation, and a correlation in azimuth which is broad in pseudorapidity. The particle composition of the jet-like correlation is determined using identified associated particles. The dependence of the conditional yield of the jet-like correlation on the trigger particle momentum, associated particle momentum, and centrality for correlations with unidentified trigger particles are presented. The neutral strange particle composition in jet-like correlations with unidentified charged particle triggers is not well described by PYTHIA. However, the yield of unidentified particles in jet-like correlations with neutral strange particle triggers is described reasonably well by the same model.
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  • 10 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to PRC
  • 25.75.-q
  • 25.75.Gz
  • transverse momentum
  • hadron hadron: correlation
  • rapidity: correlation
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • lead
  • gold
  • copper
  • branching ratio