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Title Rapidity, azimuthal, and multiplicity dependence of mean transverse momentum and transverse momentum correlations in $\pi^{+}p$ and $K^{+}p$ collisions in $\sqrt{s}$=22 GeV
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Ataian, M R ; Bai Yu Ting ; De Wolf, E A ; Endler, A M F ; Fu Jing Hua ; Gulkanian, H R ; Hakobyan, R ; Huang Yan Ping ; Kittel, W ; Lian Shou Liu ; Li Zhiming ; Metreveli, Z V ; Smirnova, L N ; Tikhonova, L A ; Tomaradze, A G ; Wu Yuanfang ; Zotkin, S A

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Publication 2006
In: Phys. Rev. D 73 (2006) 72004-1-5
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.072004
Subject category Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN SPS ; NA22
Abstract Rapidity, azimuthal and multiplicity dependence of mean transverse momentum and transverse momentum correlations of charged particles is studied in pi/sup positive and K/sup positive collisions at 250 GeV/c incident beam momentum. For the first time, it is found that the rapidity dependence of the two-particle transverse momentum correlation is different from that of the mean transverse momentum, but both have similar multiplicity dependence. In particular, the transverse momentum correlations are boost invariant. This is similar to the recently found boost invariance of the charge balance function. A strong azimuthal dependence of the transverse momentum correlations originates from the constraint of energy-momentum conservation. The results are compared with those from the PYTHIA Monte Carlo generator. The similarities to and differences with the results from current heavy ion experiments are discussed.

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