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Lambda and Antilambda reconstruction in central Pb+Pb collisions using a time projection chamber
(1997)
Yates, Tim A. ; Afanasiev, Sergey V. ; Alber, Thomas ; Appelshäuser, Harald ; Bächler, Joachim ; Bailey, Stephen John ; Barnby, Lee Stuart ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Białkowska, Helena ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Bock, Rudolf ; Bormann, Christian ; Brady, Franklin Paul ; Brockmann, Robert ; Buncic, Nenad ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chan, P ; Cooper, Glenn E. ; Cramer, John G. ; Cramer, Pauline B. ; Csató, Péter ; Dietz, Oliver ; Dunn, Jason ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eckhardt, Frank ; Ferguson, M. I. ; Fischer, Hans Gerhard ; Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Fuchs, M ; Gabler, Frank ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Grebieszkow, Jaroslaw ; Günther, Jörg ; Harris, John W. ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Henkel, Torsten ; Hill, L. A. ; Huang, Isaac ; Howe, Mark A. ; Hümmler, Holm Gero ; Igo, George J. ; Irmscher, Detlef ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kowalski, Marek ; Lasiuk, Brian ; Lévai, Péter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Mock, Andreas ; Molnár, József ; Nelson, John M. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Piper, Andreas ; Porter, R. Jefferson ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Poziombka, Stefan ; Prindle, Duncan J. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Rauch, Wolfgang Hans ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Roland, Christof ; Roland, Gunther ; Rudolph, Heinrich ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sakrejda, Iwona ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Semenov, Alexei Yu. ; Schäfer, Erich ; Schmischke, Dirk ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schönfelder, Stefan ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Squier, Gordon Thomas Anderson ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Szentpétery, Imre ; Sziklai, János ; Toy, Milton Y. ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wang, Feipeng ; Weerasundara, Dhammika D. ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Wienold, Thomas ; Wood, Lindsay ; Zimányi, József ; Zhu, X Z ; Zybert, Ryszard
The large acceptance time projection chambers of the NA49 experiment are used to record the trajectory of charged particles from Pb + Pb collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon. Neutral strange hadrons have been reconstructed from their charged decay products. To obtain distributions of Λ, and Ks0 in discrete bins of rapidity, y, and transverse momentum, pT, calculations have been performed to determine the acceptance of the detector and the efficiency of the reconstruction software as a function of both variables. The lifetime distributions obtained give values of cτ = 7.8 ± 0.6 cm for Λ and cτ = 2.5 ± 0.3 cm for Ks0, consistent with data book values.
Seyboth, Peter ; Alt, Christopher ; Antičić, Tome ; Baatar, B. ; Barna, Daniel ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Betev, Latchezar ; Białkowska, Helena ; Blume, Christoph ; Boimska, Bożena ; Botje, Michiel ; Bracinik, Juraj ; Bramm, Roland ; Brun, René ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Černý, Vladimír ; Christakoglou, Panagiotis ; Chvala, Ondrej ; Cramer, John G. ; Csató, Péter ; Darmenov, Nikolay ; Dimitrov, Anton ; Dinkelaker, Peter ; Eckardt, Volker ; Farantatos, Gerassimos ; Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Georgopoulos, George ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Grebieszkow, Katarzyna ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Hoehne, Claudia ; Kadija, Krešo ; Karev, Alexandre ; Kliemant, Michael ; Kniege, Stefan ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Kornaś, Ewelina ; Korus, Robert ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kraus, Ingrid ; Kreps, Michal ; Leeuwen, Marco van ; Lévai, Péter ; Litov, Leandr ; Lungwitz, Benjamin ; Makariev, Martin ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Markert, Christina ; Mateev, Matej D. ; Mayes, Bill W. ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Meurer, Christine ; Mischke, André ; Mitrovski, Michael Kosta ; Molnar, József ; Mrowczynski, Stanislaw ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Panayotov, Dobromir ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Pikna, Miroslav ; Pinsky, Lawrence ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Richard, Agnes Carol Joanna ; Roland, Christof ; Roland, Gunther ; Rybczyński, Maciej ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seyboth, Peter ; Sikler, Ferenc ; Sitar, Branislav ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Stefanek, Grzegorz ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Šuša, Tatjana ; Szentpetery, Imre ; Sziklai, János ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Varga, Dezsö ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Veres, Gábor I. ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wetzler, Alexander Albert ; Włodarczyk, Zbigniew ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimanyi, József
Particle production in central Pb+Pb collisions was studied with the NA49 large acceptance spectrometer at the CERN SPS at beam energies of 20, 30, 40, 80, and 158 GeV per nucleon. A change of the energy dependence is observed around 30A GeV for the yields of pions and strange particles as well as for the shapes of the transverse mass spectra. At present only a reaction scenario with onset of deconfinement is able to reproduce the measurements.
Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Afanasiev, Sergey V. ; Alber, Thomas ; Appelshäuser, Harald ; Bächler, Joachim ; Bailey, Stephen John ; Barnby, Lee Stuart ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Białkowska, Helena ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Bock, Rudolf ; Bormann, Christian ; Brady, Franklin Paul ; Brockmann, Robert ; Buncic, Nenad ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chan, P. ; Cooper, Glenn E. ; Cramer, John G. ; Cramer, Pauline B. ; Csató, Péter ; Dietz, Oliver ; Dunn, Jason ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eckhardt, Frank ; Ferguson, M. I. ; Fischer, Hans Gerhard ; Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Fuchs, M. ; Gabler, Frank ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Grebieszkow, Jaroslaw ; Günther, Jörg ; Harris, John W. ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Henkel, Torsten ; Hill, L. A. ; Huang, Isaac ; Howe, Mark A. ; Hümmler, Holm Gero ; Igo, George J. ; Irmscher, Detlef ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Konashenok, Anton ; Kowalski, Marek ; Lasiuk, Brian ; Lévai, Péter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Mock, Andreas ; Molnár, József ; Nelson, John M. ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Piper, Andreas ; Porter, R. Jefferson ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Poziombka, Stefan ; Prindle, Duncan J. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Rauch, Wolfgang Hans ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Roland, Christof ; Roland, Gunther ; Rudolph, Heinrich ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sakrejda, Iwona ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Semenov, Alexei Yu. ; Schäfer, Erich ; Schmischke, Dirk ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schönfelder, Stefan ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Squier, Gordon Thomas Anderson ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Szentpétery, Imre ; Sziklai, János ; Toy, Milton Y. ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wang, Feipeng ; Weerasundara, Dhammika D. ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Wienold, Thomas ; Wood, Lindsay ; Yates, Tim A. ; Zimányi, József ; Zhu, Xue-Zhou ; Zybert, Ryszard
Using the NA49 main TPC, the central production of hyperons has been measured in CERN SPS Pb - Pb collisions at 158 GeV c-1. The preliminary ratio, studied at 2.0 < y < 2.6 and 1 < pT < 3 GeV c-1, equals ~ (13 ± 4)% (systematic error only). It is compatible, within errors, with the previously obtained ratios for central S + S [1], S + W [2], and S + Au [3] collisions. The fit to the transverse momentum distribution resulted in an inverse slope parameter T of 297 MeV. At this level of statistics we do not see any noticeable enhancement of hyperon production with the increased volume (and, possibly, degree of equilibration) of the system from S + S to Pb + Pb. This result is unexpected and counterintuitive, and should be further investigated. If confirmed, it will have a significant impact on our understanding of mechanisms leading to the enhanced strangeness production in heavy-ion collisions.
Friese, Volker ; Afanasiev, Sergey V. ; Alber, Thomas ; Appelshäuser, Harald ; Bächler, Joachim ; Bailey, Stephen John ; Barnby, Lee Stuart ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Białkowska, Helena ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Bock, Rudolf ; Bormann, Christian ; Brady, Franklin Paul ; Brockmann, Robert ; Buncic, Nenad ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chan, P ; Cooper, Glenn E. ; Cramer, John G. ; Cramer, Pauline B. ; Csató, Péter ; Dietz, Oliver ; Dunn, Jason ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eckhardt, Frank ; Ferguson, M. I. ; Fischer, Hans Gerhard ; Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Fuchs, M ; Gabler, Frank ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Grebieszkow, Jaroslaw ; Günther, Jörg ; Harris, John W. ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Henkel, Torsten ; Hill, L. A. ; Huang, Isaac ; Howe, Mark A. ; Hümmler, Holm Gero ; Igo, George J. ; Irmscher, Detlef ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kowalski, Marek ; Lasiuk, Brian ; Lévai, Péter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Mock, Andreas ; Molnár, József ; Nelson, John M. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Piper, Andreas ; Porter, R. Jefferson ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Poziombka, Stefan ; Prindle, Duncan J. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Rauch, Wolfgang Hans ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Roland, Christof ; Roland, Gunther ; Rudolph, Heinrich ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sakrejda, Iwona ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Semenov, Alexei Yu. ; Schäfer, Erich ; Schmischke, Dirk ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schönfelder, Stefan ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Squier, Gordon Thomas Anderson ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Szentpétery, Imre ; Sziklai, János ; Toy, Milton Y. ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wang, Feipeng ; Weerasundara, Dhammika D. ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Wienold, Thomas ; Wood, Lindsay ; Yates, Tim A. ; Zimányi, József ; Zhu, Xue-Zhou ; Zybert, Ryszard
Preliminary data on phi production in central Pb + Pb collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon are presented, measured by the NA49 experiment in the hadronic decay channel phi - K+K-. At mid-rapidity, the kaons were separated from pions and protons by combining dE/dx and time-of-flight information; in the forward rapidity range only dE/dx identification was used to obtain the rapidity distribution and a rapidity-integrated mt-spectrum. The mid-rapidity yield obtained was dN/dy = 1.85 ± 0.3 per event; the total phi multiplicity was estimated to be 5.0 ± 0.7 per event. Comparison with published pp data shows a slight, but not very significant strangeness enhancement.
Antičić, Tome ; Baatar, B. ; Barna, Daniel ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Behler, Matthias ; Betev, Latchezar ; Białkowska, Helena ; Billimeier, Anja ; Blume, Christoph ; Boimska, Bożena ; Botje, Michiel ; Bracinik, Juraj ; Bramm, Roland ; Brun, René ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Černý, Vladimír ; Christakoglou, Panagiotis ; Chvala, Ondrej ; Cooper, Glenn E. ; Cramer, John G. ; Csató, Péter ; Dinkelaker, Peter ; Eckardt, Volker ; Filip, Peter ; Fischer, Hans Gerhard ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Georgopoulos, George ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Höhne, Claudia ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Kadija, Krešo ; Karev, Alexandre ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Korus, Robert ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kraus, Ingrid ; Kreps, Michal ; Leeuwen, Marco van ; Lévai, Péter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Markert, Christina ; Mayes, Bill W. ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Meurer, Christine ; Mischke, André ; Mitrovski, Michael Kosta ; Molnár, József ; Mrówczyński, Stanislaw ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Perl, Katarzyna ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Pikna, Miroslav ; Pinsky, Lawrence ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Roland, Christof ; Roland, Gunther ; Rybczyński, Maciej ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seyboth, Peter ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Sitar, Branislav ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Stefanek, Grzegorz ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Šuša, Tatjana ; Szentpétery, Imre ; Sziklai, János ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Varga, Dezsö ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Veres, Gábor I. ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Wetzler, Alexander Albert ; Włodarczyk, Zbigniew ; Xu, Nu ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimanyi, József
The transverse mass mt distributions for deuterons and protons are measured in Pb+Pb reactions near midrapidity and in the range 0<mt–m<1.0 (1.5) GeV/c2 for minimum bias collisions at 158A GeV and for central collisions at 40 and 80 A GeV beam energies. The rapidity density dn/dy, inverse slope parameter T and mean transverse mass <mt> derived from mt distributions as well as the coalescence parameter B2 are studied as a function of the incident energy and the collision centrality. The deuteron mt spectra are significantly harder than those of protons, especially in central collisions. The coalescence factor B2 shows three systematic trends. First, it decreases strongly with increasing centrality reflecting an enlargement of the deuteron coalescence volume in central Pb+Pb collisions. Second, it increases with mt. Finally, B2 shows an increase with decreasing incident beam energy even within the SPS energy range. The results are discussed and compared to the predictions of models that include the collective expansion of the source created in Pb+Pb collisions.
Evidence for an exotic S=-2, Q=-2 baryon resonance in proton-proton collisions at the CERN SPS
(2004)
Alt, Christopher ; Antičić, Tome ; Baatar, B. ; Barna, Daniel ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Betev, Latchezar ; Białkowska, Helena ; Billmeier, Anja ; Blume, Christoph ; Boimska, Bożena ; Botje, Michiel ; Bracinik, Juraj ; Bramm, Roland ; Brun, René ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Černý, Vladimír ; Christakoglou, Panagiotis ; Chvala, Ondrej ; Cramer, John G. ; Csató, Péter ; Darmenov, Nikolay ; Dimitrov, Anton ; Dinkelaker, Peter ; Eckardt, Volker ; Farantatos, Gerassimos ; Filip, Peter ; Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Georgopoulos, George ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Höhne, Claudia ; Kadija, Krešo ; Karev, Alexandre ; Kniege, Stefan ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Korus, Robert ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kraus, Ingrid ; Kreps, Michal ; Leeuwen, Marco van ; Lévai, Péter ; Litov, Leandr ; Makariev, Martin ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Markert, Christina ; Mateev, Matej D. ; Mayes, Bill W. ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Meurer, Christine ; Mischke, André ; Mitrovski, Michael Kosta ; Molnár, József ; Mrówczyński, Stanislaw ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Panayotov, Dobromir ; Perl, Katarzyna ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Pikna, Miroslav ; Pinsky, Lawrence ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Roland, Christof ; Roland, Gunther ; Rybczyński, Maciej ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seyboth, Peter ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Sitar, Branislav ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Stefanek, Grzegorz ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Šuša, Tatjana ; Szentpétery, Imre ; Sziklai, János ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Varga, Dezsö ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Veres, Gábor I. ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wetzler, Alexander Albert ; Włodarczyk, Zbigniew ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimanyi, József
Results of resonance searches in the Xi - pi -, Xi - pi +, Xi -bar+ pi -, and Xi -bar+ pi + invariant mass spectra in proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s]=17.2 GeV are presented. Evidence is shown for the existence of a narrow Xi - pi - baryon resonance with mass of 1.862±0.002 GeV/c2 and width below the detector resolution of about 0.018 GeV/c2. The significance is estimated to be above 4.2 sigma . This state is a candidate for the hypothetical exotic Xi --3/2 baryon with S=-2, I=3 / 2, and a quark content of (dsdsu-bar). At the same mass, a peak is observed in the Xi - pi + spectrum which is a candidate for the Xi 03/2 member of this isospin quartet with a quark content of (dsusd-bar). The corresponding antibaryon spectra also show enhancements at the same invariant mass.
Alber, Thomas ; Bächler, Joachim ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Białkowska, Helena ; Bloomer, Matthew A. ; Bock, Rudolf ; Braithwaite, Wilfred J. ; Brinkmann, Dittmar ; Brockmann, Robert ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Chan, Phaikying ; Cramer, Pauline B. ; Cramer, John G. ; Derado, Ivan ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eschke, Jürgen ; Favuzzi, Cecilia ; Ferenc, Daniel ; Fleischmann, B. ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Fuchs, Michael ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Harris, John W. ; Hoffman, Matthias ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kosiec, Jacek ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kühmichel, Andreas ; Lahanas, Michael ; Lee, Jae-Yun ; Ljubičić, Ante ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Mitchell, Jeffery Thomas ; Morse, Richard J. ; Nappi, Eugenio ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Paić, Guy ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Piper, Andreas ; Posa, Francesco ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Rauch, Wolfgang Hans ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Roland, Gunther ; Rothard, Hermann ; Runge, Kay ; Sandoval, Andres ; Schambach, Joachim ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schmoetten, Emile ; Schneider, Ingo ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Spinelli, Paolo ; Stefansky, Piotr ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Vasileiadis, Georgios ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Wosiek, Barbara
The NA35 experiment has collected a high statistics set of momentum analyzed negative hadrons near and forward of midrapidity for central collisions of 200A GeV/c 32S+S, Cu, Ag, and Au. Using momentum space correlations to study the size of the source of particle production, the transverse source radii are found to decrease by ~40% at midrapidity and ~20% at forward rapidity while the longitudinal radius RL is found to decrease by ~50% as pT increases over the interval 50<pT<600 MeV/c. Calculations using a microscopic phase space approach (relativistic quantum molecular dynamics) reproduce the observed trends of the data. PACS: 25.75.+r
Alber, Thomas ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Białkowska, Helena ; Bloomer, Matthew A. ; Bock, Rudolf ; Braithwaite, Wilfred J. ; Brinkmann, Dittmar ; Brockmann, Robert ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Chan, Phaikying ; Chase, S. I. ; Cramer, Pauline B. ; Cramer, John G. ; Derado, Ivan ; Eberlein, Björn ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eschke, Jürgen ; Ferenc, Daniel ; Fleischmann, B. ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Fuchs, Michael ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Harris, John W. ; Hoffmann, Matthias ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kosiec, Jacek ; Kowalski, Marek ; Lahanas, Michael ; Lee, Jae-Yun ; Ljubicic, Ante Jr. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Mitchell, Jeffery Thomas ; Morse, Richard J. ; Nappi, Eugenio ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Paic, Guy ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Piper, Andreas ; Posa, Francesco ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Pugh, Howel G. ; Rai, Gulshan ; Rauch, Wolfgang Hans ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Roland, Gunther ; Rothard, Hermann ; Runge, Kay ; Sandoval, Andres ; Schambach, Joachim ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schmoetten, Emile ; Schneider, Ingo ; Sendelbach, Ralf ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Stefansky, Piotr ; Teitelbaum, Lawrence Paul ; Tonse, Shaheen ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Vasileiadis, Georgios ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Wensveen, Martinus ; Wosiek, Barbara
We present the measured correlation functions for pi+ pi-, pi- pi- and pi+ pi+ pairs in central S+Ag collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon. The Gamov function, which has been traditionally used to correct the correlation functions of charged pions for the Coulomb interaction, is found to be inconsistent with all measured correlation functions. Certain problems which have been dominating the systematic uncertainty of the correlation analysis are related to this inconsistency. It is demonstrated that a new Coulomb correction method, based exclusively on the measured correlation function for pi+ pi- pairs, may solve the problem.
Alber, Thomas ; Appelshäuser, Harald ; Bächler, Joachim ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Białkowska, Helena ; Bieser, Fred ; Bloomer, Matthew A. ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Bock, Rudolf ; Bormann, Christian ; Brady, Franklin Paul ; Brockmann, Robert ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chan, Phaikying ; Cooper, Glenn E. ; Cramer, John G. ; Cramer, Pauline B. ; Csató, Péter ; Derado, Ivan ; Dunn, Jason ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eckhardt, Frank ; Euler, Sebastian ; Ferguson, M. I. ; Fischer, Hans Gerhard ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Fuchs, Matthias ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Grebieszkow, Jaroslaw ; Günther, Jörg ; Harris, John W. ; Heck, W. ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Hill, L. A. ; Huang, Isaac ; Howe, Mark A. ; Igo, George J. ; Irmscher, Detlef ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kecskemeti, J. ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kühmichel, Andreas ; Lasiuk, Brian ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Mitchell, J. W. ; Mock, Andreas ; Nelson, John M. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Pálinkás, József ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Piper, Andreas ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Prindle, Duncan J. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Rauch, Wolfgang Hans ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Rudolph, Heinrich ; Runge, Kay ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Schäfer, Erich ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schönfelder, Stefan ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Sikler, Ferenc ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Szentpetery, Imre ; Sziklai, János ; Toy, Milton Y. ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Wienold, Thomas ; Wood, Lindsay ; Zimanyi, József ; Zhu, X. -Z. ; Zybert, Ryszard
Adler, Clemens ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Allgower, Chris ; Anderson, Mike ; Averichev, Georgy S. ; Balewski, Jan ; Barannikova, Olga ; Barnby, Lee Stuart ; Baudot, Jérome ; Bekele, Selemon ; Belaga, Victoria Vladimirovna ; Bellwied, Rene ; Berger, Jens ; Bichsel, Hans ; Bland, Leslie C. ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Bonner, Billy E. ; Bossingham, R. ; Boucham, Abdelkrim ; Brandin, Andrei V. ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Cardenas, Andrés ; Carroll, J. ; Castillo Castellanos, Javier Ernesto ; Castro, M. ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chen, M. L. ; Chen, Y. ; Chernenko, Sergey P. ; Cherney, Michael Gerard ; Chikanian, Alexei ; Choi, B. ; Christie, William ; Coffin, Jean Pierre ; Conin, Laurent ; Cormier, Thomas Michael ; Cramer, John G. ; Crawford, Henry J. ; DeMello, M. ; Deng, W. S. ; Derevschikov, Anatoly A. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Draper, James E. ; Dunin, V. 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We report results on the ratio of midrapidity antiproton-to-proton yields in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN] = 130 GeV per nucleon pair as measured by the STAR experiment at RHIC. Within the rapidity and transverse momentum range of | y|<0.5 and 0.4<pt<1.0 GeV/c, the ratio is essentially independent of either transverse momentum or rapidity, with an average of 0.65±0.01(stat)±0.07(syst) for minimum bias collisions. Within errors, no strong centrality dependence is observed. The results indicate that at this RHIC energy, although the p-p-bar pair production becomes important at midrapidity, a significant excess of baryons over antibaryons is still present.