Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Particles from Au 1 Au Collisions at the Maximum RHIC Energy , p sNN 5 200 GeV

I. G. Bearden,7 D. Beavis,1 C. Besliu,10 Y. Blyakhman,6 B. Budick,6 H. Bøggild,7 C. Chasman,1 C. H. Christensen,7 P. Christiansen,7 J. Cibor,3 R. Debbe,1 E. Enger,12 J. J. Gaardhøje,7 K. Hagel,8 O. Hansen,7 A. Holm,7 A. K. Holme,12 H. Ito,11 E. Jakobsen,7 A. Jipa,10 J. I. Jørdre,9 F. Jundt,2 C. E. Jørgensen,7 R. Karabowicz,4 T. Keutgen,8 E. J. Kim,1 T. Kozik,4 T. M. Larsen,12 J. H. Lee,1 Y. K. Lee,5 G. Løvhøiden,12 Z. Majka,4 A. Makeev,8 B. McBreen,1 M. Mikelsen,12 M. Murray,8 J. Natowitz,8 B. S. Nielsen,7 J. Norris,11 K. Olchanski,1 J. Olness,1 D. Ouerdane,7 R. Płaneta,4 F. Rami,2 C. Ristea,10 D. Röhrich,9 B. H. Samset,12 D. Sandberg,7 S. J. Sanders,11 R. A. Sheetz,1 P. Staszel,7 T. F. Thorsteinsen,9,* T. S. Tveter,12 F. Videbæk,1 R. Wada,8 A. Wieloch,4 and I. S. Zgura10 (BRAHMS Collaboration) 1Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 2Institut de Recherches Subatomiques and Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France 3Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow, Poland 4Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland 5Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218 6New York University, New York, New York 10003 7Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 8Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843 9University of Bergen, Department of Physics, Bergen, Norway 10University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania 11University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 12University of Oslo, Department of Physics, Oslo, Norway (Received 3 December 2001; revised manuscript received 14 February 2002; published 2 May 2002)