TY - INPR A1 - Appelshäuser, Harald A1 - Bächler, Joachim A1 - Bailey, Stephen John A1 - Barna, Daniel A1 - Barnby, Lee Stuart A1 - Bartke, Jerzy A1 - Barton, Robert Allan A1 - Białkowska, Helena A1 - Billmeier, Anja A1 - Blyth, Charles O. A1 - Bock, Rudolf A1 - Bormann, Christian A1 - Brady, Franklin Paul A1 - Brockmann, Robert A1 - Brun, René A1 - Bunčić, Predrag A1 - Caines, Helen Louise A1 - Carr, Lincoln D. A1 - Cebra, Daniel A. A1 - Cooper, Glenn E. A1 - Cramer, John G. A1 - Cristinziani, Markus A1 - Csató, Péter A1 - Dunn, Jason A1 - Eckardt, Volker A1 - Eckhardt, Frank A1 - Ferguson, M. I. A1 - Fischer, Hans Gerhard A1 - Flierl, Dominik Bernhard A1 - Fodor, Zoltán A1 - Foka, Panagiota A1 - Freund, Peter A1 - Friese, Volker A1 - Fuchs, Matthias A1 - Gabler, Frank A1 - Ganz, Rudolf A1 - Geist, W. A1 - Gál, József A1 - Gaździcki, Marek A1 - Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa A1 - Grebieszkow, Jaroslaw A1 - Günther, Jörg A1 - Harris, John William A1 - Hegyi, Sándor A1 - Henkel, Torsten A1 - Hill, L. A. A1 - Hümmler, Holm Gero A1 - Igo, George J. A1 - Irmscher, Detlef A1 - Jacobs, Peter Martin A1 - Jones, Peter Graham A1 - Kadija, Krešo A1 - Kolesnikov, Vadim I. A1 - Konashenok, Anton A1 - Kowalski, Marek A1 - Lasiuk, Brian A1 - Lévai, Péter A1 - Liu, F. A1 - Malakhov, Aleksandr I. A1 - Margetis, Spyridon A1 - Markert, Christina A1 - Melkumov, Georgy L. A1 - Mock, Andreas A1 - Molnár, József A1 - Nelson, J. M. A1 - Oldenburg, Markus D. A1 - Odyniec, Grazyna Janina A1 - Pálla, Gabriella A1 - Panagiotou, Apostolos D. A1 - Petridis, Athanasios A1 - Piper, Andreas A1 - Porter, R. Jefferson A1 - Poskanzer, Arthur M. A1 - Prindle, Duncan J. A1 - Pühlhofer, Falk A1 - Rauch, Wolfgang Hans A1 - Reid, Jeffrey G. A1 - Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst A1 - Retyk, Waldemar A1 - Ritter, Hans Georg A1 - Röhrich, Dieter A1 - Roland, Christof A1 - Roland, Gunther A1 - Rudolph, Heinrich A1 - Rybicki, Andrzej A1 - Sandoval, Andres A1 - Sann, Hans A1 - Semenov, Alexei Yu. A1 - Schäfer, Erich A1 - Schmischke, Dirk A1 - Schmitz, Norbert A1 - Schönfelder, Stefan A1 - Seyboth, Peter A1 - Seyerlein, Jürgen A1 - Siklér, Ferenc A1 - Skrzypczak, Ewa A1 - Snellings, Raimond A1 - Squier, Gordon Thomas Anderson A1 - Stock, Reinhard A1 - Ströbele, Herbert A1 - Struck, Christof A1 - Šuša, Tatjana A1 - Szentpétery, Imre A1 - Sziklai, János A1 - Toy, Milton Y. A1 - Trainor, Thomas A. A1 - Trentalange, Stephen A1 - Ullrich, Thomas A1 - Vassiliou, Maria A1 - Veres, Gábor I. A1 - Vesztergombi, György A1 - Vranić, Danilo A1 - Wang, Feipeng A1 - Weerasundara, Dhammika D. A1 - Wenig, Siegfried A1 - Whitten, Charles A. A1 - Wienold, Thomas A1 - Wood, Lindsay A1 - Xu, Nu A1 - Yates, Tim A. A1 - Zimányi, József A1 - Zhu, Xue-Zhou A1 - Zybert, Ryszard T1 - Xi and Xi-bar production in 158 GeV/nucleon Pb + Pb collisions N2 - We report measurements of Xi and Xi-bar hyperon absolute yields as a function of rapidity in 158 GeV/c Pb+Pb collisions. At midrapidity, dN/dy = 2.29 +/- 0.12 for Xi, and 0.52 +/- 0.05 for Xi-bar, leading to the ratio of Xi-bar/Xi = 0.23 +/- 0.03. Inverse slope parameters fitted to the measured transverse mass spectra are of the order of 300 MeV near mid-rapidity. The estimated total yield of Xi particles in Pb+Pb central interactions amounts to 7.4 +/- 1.0 per collision. Comparison to Xi production in properly scaled p+p reactions at the same energy reveals a dramatic enhancement (about one order of magnitude) of Xi production in Pb+Pb central collisions over elementary hadron interactions. Y1 - 1998 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3812 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-16932 ER -