1. 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
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Abdallah, MS, Aboona, BE, Adam, J, Adamczyk, L, Adams, JR, Adkins, JK, Aggarwal, I, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Anderson, DM, Aschenauer, EC, Atchison, J, Bairathi, V, Baker, W, Ball, JG, Barish, K, Bellwied, R, Bhagat, P, Bhasin, A, Bhatta, S, Bielcik, J, Bielcikova, J, Brandenburg, JD, Cai, XZ, Caines, H, de la Barca Sánchez, M Calderón, Cebra, D, Chakaberia, I, Chaloupka, P, Chan, BK, Chang, Z, Chatterjee, A, Chen, D, Chen, J, Chen, JH, Chen, X, Chen, Z, Cheng, J, Cheng, Y, Choudhury, S, Christie, W, Chu, X, Crawford, HJ, Csanád, M, Dale-Gau, G, Daugherity, M, Deppner, IM, Dhamija, A, Di Carlo, L, Didenko, L, Dixit, P, Dong, X, Drachenberg, JL, Duckworth, E, Dunlop, JC, Engelage, J, Eppley, G, Esumi, S, Evdokimov, O, Ewigleben, A, Eyser, O, Fatemi, R, Fawzi, FM, Fazio, S, Feng, CJ, Feng, Y, Finch, E, Fisyak, Y, Fu, C, Gagliardi, CA, Galatyuk, T, Geurts, F, Ghimire, N, Gibson, A, Gopal, K, Gou, X, Grosnick, D, Gupta, A, Guryn, W, Hamed, A, Han, Y, Harabasz, S, Harasty, MD, Harris, JW, Harrison, H, He, S, He, W, He, XH, He, Y, Heppelmann, S, Herrmann, N, Hoffman, E, Holub, L, Hu, C, Hu, Q, Hu, Y, Huang, H, Huang, HZ, Huang, SL, and Huang, T
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Nuclear and Plasma Physics ,Particle and High Energy Physics ,Physical Sciences ,Nuclear and plasma physics - Abstract
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.
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- 2023