Measurements of Transverse Energy Distributions in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV

Measurements of transverse energy distributions in Au+Au collisions at GeV s N N = 200 J. Adams, 3 M.M. Aggarwal, 29 Z. Ahammed, 43 J. Amonett, 20 B.D. Anderson, 20 D. Arkhipkin, 13 G.S. Averichev, 12 Y. Bai, 27 J. Balewski, 17 O. Barannikova, 32 L.S. Barnby, 3 J. Baudot, 18 S. Bekele, 28 V.V. Belaga, 12 R. Bellwied, 46 J. Berger, 14 B.I. Bezverkhny, 48 S. Bharadwaj, 33 V.S. Bhatia, 29 H. Bichsel, 45 A. Billmeier, 46 L.C. Bland, 4 C.O. Blyth, 3 B.E. Bonner, 34 M. Botje, 27 A. Boucham, 38 A. Brandin, 25 A. Bravar, 4 M. Bystersky, 11 R.V. Cadman, 1 X.Z. Cai, 37 H. Caines, 48 M. Calder´ n de la Barca S´ nchez, 4 J. Carroll, 21 J. Castillo, 21 D. Cebra, 7 Z. Chajecki, 44 o a P. Chaloupka, 11 S. Chattopdhyay, 43 H.F. Chen, 36 Y. Chen, 8 J. Cheng, 41 M. Cherney, 10 A. Chikanian, 48 W. Christie, 4 J.P. Coffin, 18 T.M. Cormier, 46 J.G. Cramer, 45 H.J. Crawford, 6 D. Das, 43 S. Das, 43 M.M. de Moura, 35 A.A. Derevschikov, 31 L. Didenko, 4 T. Dietel, 14 W.J. Dong, 8 X. Dong, 36 J.E. Draper, 7 F. Du, 48 A.K. Dubey, 15 V.B. Dunin, 12 J.C. Dunlop, 4 M.R. Dutta Mazumdar, 43 V. Eckardt, 23 W.R. Edwards, 21 L.G. Efimov, 12 V. Emelianov, 25 J. Engelage, 6 G. Eppley, 34 B. Erazmus, 38 M. Estienne, 38 P. Fachini, 4 J. Faivre, 18 R. Fatemi, 17 J. Fedorisin, 12 K. Filimonov, 21 P. Filip, 11 E. Finch, 48 V. Fine, 4 Y. Fisyak, 4 K.J. Foley, 4 K. Fomenko, 12 J. Fu, 41 C.A. Gagliardi, 39 J. Gans, 48 M.S. Ganti, 43 L. Gaudichet, 38 F. Geurts, 34 V. Ghazikhanian, 8 P. Ghosh, 43 J.E. Gonzalez, 8 O. Grachov, 46 O. Grebenyuk, 27 D. Grosnick, 42 S.M. Guertin, 8 Y. Guo, 46 A. Gupta, 19 T.D. Gutierrez, 7 T.J. Hallman, 4 A. Hamed, 46 D. Hardtke, 21 J.W. Harris, 48 M. Heinz, 2 T.W. Henry, 39 S. Hepplemann, 30 B. Hippolyte, 48 A. Hirsch, 32 E. Hjort, 21 G.W. Hoffmann, 40 H.Z. Huang, 8 S.L. Huang, 36 E.W. Hughes, 5 T.J. Humanic, 28 G. Igo, 8 A. Ishihara, 40 P. Jacobs, 21 W.W. Jacobs, 17 M. Janik, 44 H. Jiang, 8 P.G. Jones, 3 E.G. Judd, 6 S. Kabana, 2 K. Kang, 41 M. Kaplan, 9 D. Keane, 20 V.Yu. Khodyrev, 31 J. Kiryluk, 22 A. Kisiel, 44 E.M. Kislov, 12 J. Klay, 21 S.R. Klein, 21 A. Klyachko, 17 D.D. Koetke, 42 T. Kollegger, 14 M. Kopytine, 20 L. Kotchenda, 25 M. Kramer, 26 P. Kravtsov, 25 V.I. Kravtsov, 31 K. Krueger, 1 C. Kuhn, 18 A.I. Kulikov, 12 A. Kumar, 29 C.L. Kunz, 9 R.Kh. Kutuev, 13 A.A. Kuznetsov, 12 M.A.C. Lamont, 48 J.M. Landgraf, 4 S. Lange, 14 F. Laue, 4 J. Lauret, 4 A. Lebedev, 4 R. Lednicky, 12 S. Lehocka, 12 M.J. LeVine, 4 C. Li, 36 Q. Li, 46 Y. Li, 41 S.J. Lindenbaum, 26 M.A. Lisa, 28 F. Liu, 47 L. Liu, 47 Q.J. Liu, 45 Z. Liu, 47 T. Ljubicic, 4 W.J. Llope, 34 H. Long, 8 R.S. Longacre, 4 M. Lopez-Noriega, 28 W.A. Love, 4 Y. Lu, 47 T. Ludlam, 4 D. Lynn, 4 G.L. Ma, 37 J.G. Ma, 8 Y.G. Ma, 37 D. Magestro, 28 S. Mahajan, 19 D.P. Mahapatra, 15 R. Majka, 48 L.K. Mangotra, 19 R. Manweiler, 42 S. Margetis, 20 C. Markert, 48 L. Martin, 38 J.N. Marx, 21 H.S. Matis, 21 Yu.A. Matulenko, 31 C.J. McClain, 1 T.S. McShane, 10 F. Meissner, 21 Yu. Melnick, 31 A. Meschanin, 31 M.L. Miller, 22 Z. Milosevich, 9 N.G. Minaev, 31 C. Mironov, 20 A. Mischke, 27 D. Mishra, 15 J. Mitchell, 34 B. Mohanty, 43 L. Molnar, 32 C.F. Moore, 40 M.J. Mora-Corral, 23 D.A. Morozov, 31 V. Morozov, 21 M.G. Munhoz, 35 B.K. Nandi, 43 T.K. Nayak, 43 J.M. Nelson, 3 P.K. Netrakanti, 43 V.A. Nikitin, 13 L.V. Nogach, 31 B. Norman, 20 S.B. Nurushev, 31 G. Odyniec, 21 A. Ogawa, 4 V. Okorokov, 25 M. Oldenburg, 21 D. Olson, 21 S.K. Pal, 43 Y. Panebratsev, 12 S.Y. Panitkin, 4 A.I. Pavlinov, 46 T. Pawlak, 44 T. Peitzmann, 27 V. Perevoztchikov, 4 C. Perkins, 6 W. Peryt, 44 V.A. Petrov, 13 S.C. Phatak, 15 R. Picha, 7 M. Planinic, 49 J. Pluta, 44 N. Porile, 32 J. Porter, 45 A.M. Poskanzer, 21 M. Potekhin, 4 E. Potrebenikova, 12 B.V.K.S. Potukuchi, 19 D. Prindle, 45 C. Pruneau, 46 J. Putschke, 23 G. Rai, 21 G. Rakness, 30 R. Raniwala, 33 S. Raniwala, 33 O. Ravel, 38 R.L. Ray, 40 S.V. Razin, 12 D. Reichhold, 32 J.G. Reid, 45 G. Renault, 38 F. Retiere, 21 A. Ridiger, 25 H.G. Ritter, 21 J.B. Roberts, 34 O.V. Rogachevskiy, 12 J.L. Romero, 7 A. Rose, 46 C. Roy, 38 L. Ruan, 36 I. Sakrejda, 21 S. Salur, 48 J. Sandweiss, 48 I. Savin, 13 P.S. Sazhin, 12 J. Schambach, 40 R.P. Scharenberg, 32 N. Schmitz, 23 L.S. Schroeder, 21 K. Schweda, 21 J. Seger, 10 P. Seyboth, 23 E. Shahaliev, 12 M. Shao, 36 W. Shao, 5 M. Sharma, 29 W.Q. Shen, 37 K.E. Shestermanov, 31 S.S. Shimanskiy, 12 F. Simon, 23 R.N. Singaraju, 43 G. Skoro, 12 N. Smirnov, 48 R. Snellings, 27 G. Sood, 42 P. Sorensen, 21 J. Sowinski, 17 J. Speltz, 18 H.M. Spinka, 1 B. Srivastava, 32 A. Stadnik, 12 T.D.S. Stanislaus, 42 R. Stock, 14 A. Stolpovsky, 46 M. Strikhanov, 25 B. Stringfellow, 32 A.A.P. Suaide, 35 E. Sugarbaker, 28 C. Suire, 4 M. Sumbera, 11 B. Surrow, 22 T.J.M. Symons, 21 A. Szanto de Toledo, 35 P. Szarwas, 44 A. Tai, 8 J. Takahashi, 35 A.H. Tang, 27 T. Tarnowsky, 32 D. Thein, 8 J.H. Thomas, 21 S. Timoshenko, 25 M. Tokarev, 12 T.A. Trainor, 45 S. Trentalange, 8 R.E. Tribble, 39 O. Tsai, 8 J. Ulery, 32 T. Ullrich, 4 D.G. Underwood, 1 A. Urkinbaev, 12 G. Van Buren, 4 M. van Leeuwen, 21 A.M. Vander Molen, 24 R. Varma, 16 I.M. Vasilevski, 13 A.N. Vasiliev, 31 R. Vernet, 18 S.E. Vigdor, 17 V.P. Viyogi, 43 S. Vokal, 12 S.A. Voloshin, 46 M. Vznuzdaev, 25 B. Waggoner, 10 F. Wang, 32 G. Wang, 20 G. Wang, 5 X.L. Wang, 36 Y. Wang, 40 Y. Wang, 41 Z.M. Wang, 36 H. Ward, 40 J.W. Watson, 20 J.C. Webb, 17 R. Wells, 28 G.D. Westfall, 24 A. Wetzler, 21 C. Whitten Jr., 8 H. Wieman, 21 S.W. Wissink, 17 R. Witt, 2 J. Wood, 8 J. Wu, 36 N. Xu, 21 Z. Xu, 4 Z.Z. Xu, 36 E. Yamamoto, 21 P. Yepes, 34 V.I. Yurevich, 12 Y.V. Zanevsky, 12 H. Zhang, 4 W.M. Zhang, 20 Z.P. Zhang, 36 P.A Zolnierczuk, 17 R. Zoulkarneev, 13 Y. Zoulkarneeva, 13 and A.N. Zubarev 12 (STAR Collaboration) arXiv:nucl-ex/0407003 v1 2 Jul 2004