Rapidity Losses in Heavy-Ion Collisions from AGS to RHIC Energies

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2010 Chinese Physical Society and IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Zhou Feng-Chu et al 2010 Chinese Phys. Lett. 27 052503 DOI 10.1088/0256-307X/27/5/052503

0256-307X/27/5/052503

Abstract

We study the rapidity losses in central heavy-ion collisions from AGS to RHIC energies with the mean rapidity determined from the projectile net-baryon distribution after collisions. The projectile net-baryon distribution in the full rapidity range is obtained by phenomenologically removing the target contribution at the forward rapidity region from the experimental net-baryon measurements and taking into account the projectile contribution in the backward rapidity region. Based on the full projectile net-baryon distributions, calculations show that the rapidity loss stops increasing from the SPS top energy to RHIC energies, indicating that baryon transport does not depend strongly on energy at high energies.

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10.1088/0256-307X/27/5/052503