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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 ; Cerny, 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 ; Höhne, Claudia ; Kadija, Krešo ; Karev, Alexandre ; Kliemant, Michael ; Kniege, Stefan ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Kornas, Ewelina ; Korus, Robert ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kraus, Ingrid ; Kreps, Michal ; Leeuwen, Marco van ; Lévai, Péter ; Litov, Leandr ; Lungwitz, Benjamin ; Makariev, Martin Vasilev ; 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 ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Pikna, Miroslav ; Pinsky, Lawrence ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Richard, Agnes Carol Joanna ; 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 ; Zimányi, József
Results are presented on Omega production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 40 and 158 AGeV beam energy. Given are transverse-mass spectra, rapidity distributions, and total yields for the sum Omega+Antiomega at 40 AGeV and for Omega and Antiomega separately at 158 AGeV. The yields are strongly under-predicted by the string-hadronic UrQMD model and are in better agreement with predictions from a hadron gas models. PACS numbers: 25.75.Dw
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.
Alt, Christopher ; Antičić, Tome ; Baatar, B. ; Barna, Daniel ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Betev, Latchezar ; Białkowska, Helena ; Blume, Christoph ; Boimska, Bożena ; Botje, Michiel ; Bracinik, Juraj ; Bramm, Roland ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Cerny, Vladimír ; Christakoglou, Panagiotis ; Chvala, Ondrej ; Cramer, John G. ; Csató, Péter ; Dinkelaker, Peter ; Eckardt, Volker ; Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Friese, Volker ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Genchev, Vladimir ; Georgopoulos, George ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Grebieszkow, Katarzyna ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Höhne, Claudia ; Kadija, Krešo ; Karev, Alexandre ; Kliemant, Michael ; Kniege, Stefan ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kornas, 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. ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Mischke, André ; Mitrovski, Michael Kosta ; Molnár, József ; Mrówczyński, Stanislaw ; Nicolic, V. ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Panayotov, Dobromir ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Pikna, Miroslav ; Prindle, Duncan J. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Roland, Christof ; Roland, Gunther ; Rybczyński, Maciej ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sandoval, Andres ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schuster, Tim ; Seyboth, Peter ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Sitar, Branislav ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Stefanek, Grzegorz ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Šuša, Tatjana ; Szentpétery, Imre ; Sziklai, János ; Szymański, Paweł ; Trubnikov, Victor ; Varga, Dezsö ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Veres, Gábor I. ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wetzler, Alexander Albert ; Włodarczyk, Zbigniew ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zimányi, József
Results are presented from a search for the decays D0 -> K min pi plus and D0 bar -> K plus pi min in a sample of 3.8x10^6 central Pb-Pb events collected with a beam energy of 158A GeV by NA49 at the CERN SPS. No signal is observed. An upper limit on D0 production is derived and compared to predictions from several models.
Aduszkiewicz, Antoni ; Andronov, Evgeny V. ; Antičić, Tome ; Babkin, Vadim A. ; Baszczyk, Mateusz ; Bhosale, S. ; Blondel, A. ; Bogomilov, Mariyan ; Brandin, Andrei V. ; Bravar, Alessandro ; Bryliński, Wojciech ; Brzychczyk, Janusz ; Buryakov, M. ; Busygina, O. ; Bzdak, A. ; Cherif, H. ; Ćirković, M. ; Csanád, Máté ; Cybowska, J. ; Czopowicz, T. ; Damyanova, A. ; Davis, N. ; Deliyergiyev, M. ; Deveaux, Michael ; Dmitriev, A. ; Dominik, W. ; Dorosz, Piotr ; Dumarchez, J. ; Engel, Ralph ; Feofilov, Grigori A. ; Fields, L. ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Garibov, A. ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Golosov, Oleg ; Golovatyuk, V. ; Golubeva, Marina ; Grebieszkow, Katarzyna ; Guber, Fedor ; Haesler, A. ; Igolkin, Sergey N. ; Ilieva, Stoyanka ; Ivashkin, Alexander ; Johnson, S. R. ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kargin, N. ; Kashirin, E. ; Kiełbowicz, Mirosław ; Kireyeu, Viktar A. ; Klochkov, Viktor ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kolev, D. ; Korzenev, A. ; Kovalenko, V. N. ; Kowalski, S. ; Koziel, Michal ; Krasnoperov, A. ; Kucewicz, Wojciech ; Kuich, M. ; Kurepin, Alexander ; Larsen, Dag Toppe ; László, A. ; Lazareva, Tatiana V. ; Lewicki, M. ; Łojek, K. ; Lyubushkin, V. V. ; Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, Maja ; Majka, Zbigniew ; Maksiak, Bartosz ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Marcinek, A. ; Marino, A. D. ; Marton, K. ; Mathes, H.-J. ; Matulewicz, Tomasz ; Matveev, V. ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Merzlaya, Anastasia O. ; Messerly, B. ; Mik, Łukasz ; Morozov, Sergey ; Mrówczyński, Stanislaw ; Nagai, Y. ; Naskręt, Michał ; Ozvenchuk, Vitalii ; Paolone, V. ; Petukhov, Oleg ; Płaneta, Roman ; Podlaski, P. ; Popov, B. A. ; Porfy, B. ; Posiadała-Zezula, M. ; Prokhorova, D. S. ; Pszczel, Damian ; Puławski, Szymon ; Puzović, Jovan ; Ravonel, M. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Rondio, E. ; Roth, M. ; Rumberger, Brant T. ; Rumyantsev, M. ; Rustamov, Anar ; Rybczyński, Maciej ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sadovsky, Alexander ; Schmidt, K. ; Selyuzhenkov, Ilya ; Seryakov, A. Yu. ; Seyboth, Peter ; Słodkowski, M. ; Staszel, P. ; Stefanek, Grzegorz ; Stepaniak, J. ; Strichanov, Michail Nikolaevič ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Šuša, Tatjana ; Taranenko, Arkadiy ; Tefelska, A. ; Tefelski, Dariusz ; Tereshchenko, V. ; Toia, Alberica ; Tsenov, R. ; Turko, L. ; Ulrich, R. ; Unger, M. ; Uzhva, Denis ; Valiev, F. F. ; Veberič, Darko ; Vechernin, V. V. ; Wickremasinghe, A. ; Włodarczyk, Zbigniew ; Wojcik, K. ; Wyszyński, Oskar ; Zimmerman, E. D. ; Zwaska, Robert
A measurement of charged hadron pair correlations in two-dimensional ηφ space is presented. The analysis is based on total 30 million central Be + Be collisions observed in the NA61/SHINE detector at the CERN SPS for incident beam momenta of 19A, 30A, 40A, 75A, and 150A GeV/c. Measurements were carried out for unlike-sign and like-sign charge hadron pairs independently. The C(η, φ) correlation functions were compared with results from a similar analysis on p + p interactions at similar beam momenta per nucleon. General trends of the backto-back correlations are similar in central Be + Be collisions and p + p interactions, but are suppressed in magnitude due to the increased combinatorial background. Predictions from the Epos and UrQMD models are compared to the measurements. Evolution of an enhancement around (η, φ) = (0, 0) with incident energy is observed in central Be + Be collisions. It is not predicted by both models and almost non-existing in proton–proton collisions at the same momentum per nucleon.
Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adams, Joseph R. ; Adkins, J. Kevin ; Agakishiev, Geydar ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Ajitanand, N.N. ; Alekseev, Igor G. ; Anderson, Derek M. ; Aoyama, Ryo ; Aparin, Alexey ; Arkhipkin, Dmitry A. ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Ashraf, Muhammad Usman ; Attri, Anjali ; Averichev, Georgy S. ; Bairathi, Vipul ; Barish, Kenneth ; Behera, Arabinda ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bhati, Ashok Kumar ; Bhattarai, P. ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Bland, Leslie C. ; Bordyuzhin, Igor G. ; Bouchet, Jonathan ; Brandenburg, James D. ; Brandin, Andrei V. ; Brown, D. ; Bryslawskyj, Jason ; Bunzarov, Ivan ; Butterworth, Joseph ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Campbell, J.M. ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chakaberia, Irakli ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chang, Z. ; Chankova-Bunzarova, N. ; Chatterjee, A. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chen, J.H. ; Chen, X. ; Chen, X. ; Cheng, J. ; Cherney, Michael Gerard ; Christie, William ; Contin, Giacomo ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Dedovič, Tatiana G. ; Deng, J. ; Deppner, Ingo Martin ; Derevschikov, Anatoly A. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dilks, Christopher ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Draper, James E. ; Dunlop, James C. ; Efimov, Leonid G. ; Elsey, Nicholas ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Esha, Roli ; Esumi, ShinIchi ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Ewigleben, Justin ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Federič, Pavol ; Federicova, P. ; Fedorišin, Jan ; Feng, Z. ; Filip, Peter ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Flores, C.E. ; Fujita, J. ; Fulek, Łukasz ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Geurts, Frank ; Gibson, Adam ; Girard, M. ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gunarathne, D.S. ; Guo, Y. ; Gupta, Anik ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Hamad, Ayman ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Harlenderova, Alena ; Harris, John W. ; He, L. ; Heppelmann, Steven Francis ; Heppelmann, Steven Francis ; Herrmann, Norbert ; Hirsch, Andrew S. ; Horvat, S. ; Huang, X. ; Huang, H.Z. ; Huang, T. ; Huang, B. ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Huo, P. ; Igo, George J. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jentsch, Alexander ; Jia, J. ; Jiang, K. ; Jowzaee, S. ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kapukchyan, David ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kechechyan, Armen ; Khan, Z. ; Kikoła, Daniel P. ; Kim, C. ; Kisel, Ivan ; Kisiel, Adam Ryszard ; Kočenda, L. M. ; Kocmanek, M. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kraishan, A.F. ; Krauth, L. ; Kravtsov, Peter ; Krueger, Keith William ; Kulathunga, Nalinda ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Kvapil, Jakub ; Kwasizur, Joseph H. ; Lacey, Roy Alphanso ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Landry, K.D. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lednicky, Richard ; Lee, J.H. ; Li, W. ; Li, C. ; Li, Xiaomei ; Li, Y. ; Lidrych, J. ; Lin, T. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, Y. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, F. ; Liu, P. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Lomnitz, Michael ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Luo, X. ; Luo, S. ; Ma, L. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Ma, G.L. ; Ma, R. ; Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Majka, Richard Daniel ; Mallick, Dukhishyam ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Matis, Howard S. ; Mayes, D. ; Meehan, Kathryn ; Mei, Jincheng ; Miller, Z.W. ; Minaev, Nikolai G. ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mishra, Debadeepti ; Mizuno, S. ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mondal, Mriganka Mouli ; Morozov, Dmitry A. ; Mustafa, M.K. ; Nasim, Md. ; Nayak, Tapan Kumar ; Nelson, John M. ; Nemes, Daniel B. ; Nie, Maowu ; Nigmatkulov, Grigory A. ; Niida, Takafumi ; Nogach, Larisa V. ; Nonaka, Toshihiro ; Nurušev, Sandibek B. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, Kunsu ; Okorokov, Vitaly A. ; Olvitt, D. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pak, Robert ; Pandit, Y. ; Panebratsev, Yuri ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pei, Hua ; Perkins, Chris ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Poniatowska, K. ; Porter, Jeffrey Brent ; Posik, Matthew ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Przybycien, Mariusz ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Ramachandran, Suvarna ; Ray, Robert L. ; Reed, Rosi Jan ; Rehbein, M.J. ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Roberts, Jabus B. ; Rogačevskij, Oleg V. ; Romero, Juan L. ; Roth, J.D. ; Ruan, Lijuan ; Rusnak, Jan ; Rusnakova, Olga ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sahu, Pradip Kumar ; Salur, Sevil ; Sandweiss, Jack H. ; Saur, M. ; Schambach, Joachim ; Schmah, Alexander ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schweid, Benjamin R. ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Sergeeva, Maria ; Seto, Richard ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shahaliev, Ehtiram ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Shen, W.Q. ; Shi, S.S. ; Shi, Z. ; Shou, Q.Y. ; Sichtermann, Ernst P. ; Sikora, Rafał ; Šimko, Miroslav ; Singha, Subhash ; Skoby, M.J. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Smirnov, Dmitri V. ; Solyst, William ; Sorensen, Paul Richard ; Spinka, Harold. M. ; Srivastava, Brijesh Kumar ; Stanislaus, T. D. Shirvel ; Stewart, David J. ; Strichanov, Michail Nikolaevič ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Sugiura, Tetsuro ; Šumbera, Michal ; Summa, Branden ; Sun, X. ; Sun, X.M. ; Sun, Y. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Svirida, Dmitry N. ; Tang, Zebo ; Tang, Aihong ; Taranenko, Arkadiy ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Tawfik, Abdel Nasser ; Thäder, Jochen ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Todoroki, Takahito ; Tokarev, Mikhail V. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Tripathy, Srikanta Kumar ; Trzeciak, Barbara Antonina ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Tu, B. ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Upsal, Isaac ; Van Buren, Gene ; Nieuwenhuizen, Gerrit J. van ; Vasiliev, Alexander Nikolaevich ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Vokal, Stanislav ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Vossen, A. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, F. ; Webb, Grant ; Webb, Jason C. ; Wen, L. ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wieman, Howard ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wu, Y. ; Xiao, Z.G. ; Xie, G. ; Xie, W. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Y.F. ; Xu, Q.H. ; Xu, Z. ; Yang, Y. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, S. ; Yang, Q. ; Ye, Z. ; Ye, Z. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, W. ; Zhang, J.B. ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, Zuman ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, L. ; Zhang, X.P. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhong, C. ; Zhou, C. ; Zhou, L. ; Zhu, X. ; Zhu, Z. ; Zyzak, Maksym
The transversity distribution, which describes transversely polarized quarks in transversely polarized nucleons, is a fundamental component of the spin structure of the nucleon, and is only loosely constrained by global fits to existing semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) data. In transversely polarized p↑+p collisions it can be accessed using transverse polarization dependent fragmentation functions which give rise to azimuthal correlations between the polarization of the struck parton and the final state scalar mesons.This letter reports on spin dependent di-hadron correlations measured by the STAR experiment. The new dataset corresponds to 25 pb−1 integrated luminosity of p↑+p collisions at s=500 GeV, an increase of more than a factor of ten compared to our previous measurement at s=200 GeV. Non-zero asymmetries sensitive to transversity are observed at a Q2 of several hundred GeV and are found to be consistent with the former measurement and a model calculation. We expect that these data will enable an extraction of transversity with comparable precision to current SIDIS datasets but at much higher momentum transfers where subleading effects are suppressed.
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
Adam, Jaroslav ; Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adams, Joseph R. ; Adkins, J. Kevin ; Agakishiev, Geydar ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Ajitanand, N.N. ; Alekseev, Igor G. ; Anderson, Derek M. ; Aoyama, Ryo ; Aparin, Alexey ; Arkhipkin, Dmitry A. ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Ashraf, Muhammad Usman ; Atetalla, Fareha ; Attri, Anjali ; Averichev, Georgy S. ; Bai, Xiaozhi ; Bairathi, Vipul ; Barish, Kenneth ; Bassill, Aaron J. ; Behera, Arabinda ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bhati, Ashok Kumar ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Bland, Leslie C. ; Bordyuzhin, Igor G. ; Brandenburg, James D. ; Brandin, Andrei V. ; Brown, D. ; Bryslawskyj, Jason ; Bunzarov, Ivan ; Butterworth, Joseph ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Campbell, J.M. ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chakaberia, Irakli ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chang, Z. ; Chang, F.-H. ; Chankova-Bunzarova, N. ; Chatterjee, A. ; Chattopadhyay, Subhasis ; Chen, J.H. ; Chen, X. ; Chen, X. ; Cheng, J. ; Cherney, Michael Gerard ; Christie, William ; Contin, Giacomo ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Das, Supriya ; Dedovič, Tatiana G. ; Deppner, Ingo Martin ; Derevschikov, Anatoly A. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dilks, Christopher ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Dunlop, James C. ; Efimov, Leonid G. ; Elsey, Nicholas ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Esha, Roli ; Esumi, ShinIchi ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Ewigleben, Justin ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Federič, Pavol ; Federicova, P. ; Fedorišin, Jan ; Filip, Peter ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Flores, C.E. ; Fulek, Łukasz ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Galatyuk, Tetyana ; Geurts, Frank ; Gibson, Adam ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gunarathne, D.S. ; Guo, Y. ; Gupta, Anik ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Hamad, Ayman ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Harlenderova, Alena ; Harris, John W. ; He, L. ; Heppelmann, Steven Francis ; Heppelmann, Steven Francis ; Herrmann, Norbert ; Hirsch, Andrew S. ; Holub, Lukáš ; Horvat, S. ; Huang, B. ; Huang, X. ; Huang, Shengli ; Huang, T. ; Huang, H.Z. ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Huo, P. ; Igo, George J. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jentsch, Alexander ; Jia, J. ; Jiang, K. ; Jowzaee, S. ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kapukchyan, David ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kechechyan, Armen ; Kikoła, Daniel P. ; Kim, C. ; Kinghorn, Todd Adler ; Kisel, Ivan ; Kisiel, Adam Ryszard ; Kočenda, L. M. ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kraishan, A.F. ; Kramárik, Lukáš ; Krauth, L. ; Kravtsov, Peter ; Krueger, Keith William ; Kulathunga, Nalinda ; Kumar, Shyam ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Raghav ; Kvapil, Jakub ; Kwasizur, Joseph H. ; Lacey, Roy Alphanso ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lednicky, Richard ; Lee, J.H. ; Li, Y. ; Li, W. ; Li, C. ; Li, Xiaomei ; Liang, Y. ; Lidrych, J. ; Lin, T. ; Lipiec, Andrzej ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, P. ; Liu, F. ; Liu, Y. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Lomnitz, Michael ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Luo, S. ; Luo, X. ; Ma, L. ; Ma, G.L. ; Ma, R. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Majka, Richard Daniel ; Mallick, Dukhishyam ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Matis, Howard S. ; Matonoha, Oliver ; Mayes, D. ; Mazer, Joel Anthony ; Meehan, Kathryn ; Mei, Jincheng ; Minaev, Nikolai G. ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mishra, Debadeepti ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mondal, Mriganka Mouli ; Mooney, Isaac A. ; Morozov, Dmitry A. ; Nasim, Md. ; Negrete, J.D. ; Nelson, John M. ; Nemes, Daniel B. ; Nie, Maowu ; Nigmatkulov, Grigory A. ; Niida, Takafumi ; Nogach, Larisa V. ; Nonaka, Toshihiro ; Nurušev, Sandibek B. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, S. ; Oh, Kunsu ; Okorokov, Vitaly A. ; Olvitt, D. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pak, Robert ; Panebratsev, Yuri ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pei, Hua ; Perkins, Chris ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Porter, Jeffrey Brent ; Posik, Matthew ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Przybycien, Mariusz ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Radhakrishnan, Sooraj Krishnan ; Ramachandran, Suvarna ; Ray, Robert L. ; Reed, Rosi Jan ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Roberts, Jabus B. ; Rogačevskij, Oleg V. ; Romero, Juan L. ; Ruan, Lijuan ; Rusnak, Jan ; Rusnakova, Olga ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sahu, Pradip Kumar ; Salur, Sevil ; Sandweiss, Jack H. ; Schambach, Joachim ; Schmah, Alexander ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schweid, Benjamin R. ; Seck, Florian ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Sergeeva, Maria ; Seto, Richard ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shahaliev, Ehtiram ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Shen, W.Q. ; Shen, F. ; Shi, S.S. ; Shou, Q.Y. ; Sichtermann, Ernst P. ; Siejka, Sebastian ; Sikora, Rafał ; Šimko, Miroslav ; Singha, Subhash ; Smirnov, Dmitri V. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Solyst, William ; Sorensen, Paul Richard ; Spinka, Harold. 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Shirvel ; Stewart, David J. ; Strichanov, Michail Nikolaevič ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Sugiura, Tetsuro ; Šumbera, Michal ; Summa, Branden ; Sun, X. ; Sun, Y. ; Sun, X.M. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Svirida, Dmitry N. ; Szymański, Paweł ; Tang, Zebo ; Tang, Aihong ; Taranenko, Arkadiy ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Todoroki, Takahito ; Tokarev, Mikhail V. ; Tomkiel, Catherine A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Tripathy, Srikanta Kumar ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Tu, B. ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Upsal, Isaac ; Van Buren, Gene ; Vanek, Jan ; Vasiliev, Alexander Nikolaevich ; Vassiliev, Iouri ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Vokal, Stanislav ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Vossen, A. ; Wang, F. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Webb, Jason C. ; Wen, L. ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wieman, Howard ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wu, Y. ; Xiao, Z.G. ; Xie, W. ; Xie, G. ; Xu, Z. ; Xu, J. ; Xu, Y.F. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Q.H. ; Yang, Y. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, S. ; Yang, Q. ; Ye, Z. ; Ye, Z. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Yu, N. ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, W. ; Zhang, Zuman ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, L. ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, X.P. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhong, C. ; Zhou, C. ; Zhou, L. ; Zhu, Z. ; Zhu, X. ; Zyzak, Maksym
We present the first measurement of the proton–Ω correlation function in heavy-ion collisions for the central (0–40%) and peripheral (40–80%) Au + Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). Predictions for the ratio of peripheral collisions to central collisions for the proton–Ω correlation function are sensitive to the presence of a nucleon– bound state. These predictions are based on the proton– interaction extracted from (2 + 1)-flavor lattice QCD calculations at the physical point. The measured ratio of the proton–Ω correlation function between the peripheral (small system) and central (large system) collisions is less than unity for relative momentum smaller than 40 MeV/c. Comparison of our measured correlation ratio with theoretical calculation slightly favors a proton– bound system with a binding energy of ∼ 27 MeV.
System-size dependence of strangeness production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at √sNN = 17.3 GeV
(2005)
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 ; Cerny, 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 ; Höhne, Claudia ; Kadija, Krešo ; Karev, Alexandre ; Kliemant, Michael ; Kniege, Stefan ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Kornas, Ewelina ; Korus, Robert ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kraus, Ingrid ; Kreps, Michal ; Leeuwen, Marco van ; Lévai, Péter ; Litov, Leandr ; Lungwitz, Benjamin ; Makariev, Martin Vasilev ; 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 ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Pikna, Miroslav ; Pinsky, Lawrence ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Richard, Agnes Carol Joanna ; 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. ; Trubnikov, Victor ; Varga, Dezsö ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Veres, Gábor I. ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wetzler, Alexander Albert ; Włodarczyk, Zbigniew ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimányi, József
Emission of pi, K, phi and Lambda was measured in near-central C+C and Si+Si collisions at 158 AGeV beam energy. Together with earlier data for p+p, S+S and Pb+Pb, the system-size dependence of relative strangeness production in nucleus-nucleus collisions is obtained. Its fast rise and the saturation observed at about 60 participating nucleons can be understood as onset of the formation of coherent partonic subsystems of increasing size. PACS numbers: 25.75.-q
System size and centrality dependence of the balance function in A + A collisions at √sNN = 17.2 GeV
(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 ; Cerny, 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 ; Höhne, Claudia ; Kadija, Krešo ; Karev, Alexandre ; Kliemant, Michael ; Kniege, Stefan ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Kornas, 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 ; Molnár, József ; Mrówczyński, Stanislaw ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Panayotov, Dobromir ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Pikna, Miroslav ; Pinsky, Lawrence ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Richard, Agnes Carol Joanna ; 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 ; Trubnikov, Victor ; Varga, Dezsö ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Veres, Gábor I. ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wetzler, Alexander Albert ; Włodarczyk, Zbigniew ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimányi, József
Electric charge correlations were studied for p+p, C+C, Si+Si and centrality selected Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt s_NN = 17.2$ GeV with the NA49 large acceptance detector at the CERN-SPS. In particular, long range pseudo-rapidity correlations of oppositely charged particles were measured using the Balance Function method. The width of the Balance Function decreases with increasing system size and centrality of the reactions. This decrease could be related to an increasing delay of hadronization in central Pb+Pb collisions.
Friese, Volker ; Alt, Christopher ; Antičić, Tome ; Baatar, B. ; Barna, Daniel ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Behler, Matthias ; 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 ; Dinkelaker, Peter ; Eckardt, Volker ; Filip, Peter ; Fischer, Hans Gerhard ; Fodor, Zoltan ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Georgopoulos, George ; Gładysz, 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 ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Markert, Christina ; Mayes, Bill W. ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Meurer, Christine ; Mischke, André ; Mitrovski, Michael Kosta ; Molnár, József ; Mrówczynski, 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 ; Susa, 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 ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimányi, József
New results from the energy scan programme of NA49, in particular kaon production at 30 AGeV and phi production at 40 and 80 AGeV are presented. The K+/pi+ ratio shows a pronounced maximum at 30 AGeV; the kaon slope parameters are constant at SPS energies. Both findings support the scenario of a phase transition at about 30 AGeV beam energy. The phi/pi ratio increases smoothly with beam energy, showing an energy dependence similar to K-/pi-. The measured particle yields can be reproduced by a hadron gas model, with chemical freeze-out parameters on a smooth curve in the T-muB plane. The transverse spectra can be understood as resulting from a rapidly expanding, locally equilibrated source. No evidence for an earlier kinetic decoupling of heavy hyperons is found.