Scaling properties of hyperon production in Au+Au collisions at VsNN = 200 GeV

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Abstract

We present the scaling properties of Λ, Ξ, and Ω in midrapidity Au+Au collisions at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at √sNN=200  GeV. The yield of multistrange baryons per participant nucleon increases from peripheral to central collisions more rapidly than that of Λ, indicating an increase of the strange-quark density of the matter produced. The strange phase-space occupancy factor γs approaches unity for the most central collisions. Moreover, the nuclear modification factors of p, Λ, and Ξ are consistent with each other for 2
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Pages (from-to)062301/1-062301/6
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume98
Issue number6
Publication statusPublished - 2007

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