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Seyboth, Peter ; Kniege, Stefan ; Antičić, Tome ; Barna, Daniel ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Barton, Robert Allan ; Betev, Latchezar ; Białkowska, Helena ; Billmeier, Anja ; Blume, Christoph ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Boimska, Bożena ; Botje, Michiel ; Bracinik, Juraj ; Bramm, Roland ; Brun, René ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Cerny, Vladimír ; Chvala, Ondrej ; 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 ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Kadija, Krešo ; Karev, Alexandre ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kraus, Ingrid ; Kreps, Michal ; Leeuwen, Marco van ; Lévai, Péter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Markert, Christina ; Mayes, Bill W. ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Mischke, André ; Molnár, József ; Nelson, John M. ; 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 ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Sitar, Branislav ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Squier, Gordon Thomas Anderson ; 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 ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimányi, József
Experiment NA49 at the Cern SPS uses a large acceptance detector for a systematic study of particle yields and correlations in nucleus-nucleus, nucleon-nucleus and nucleon-nucleon collisions. Preliminary results for Pb+Pb collisions at 40, 80 and 158 A*GeV beam energy are shown and compared to measurements at lower and higher energies.
Rybczyński, Maciej ; 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 ; 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. ; 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
System size dependence of multiplicity fluctuations of charged particles produced in nuclear collisions at 158 A GeV was studied in the NA49 CERN experiment. Results indicate a non-monotonic dependence of the scaled variance of the multiplicity distribution with a maximum for semi-peripheral Pb+Pb interactions with number of projectile participants of about 35. This effect is not observed in a string-hadronic model of nuclear collision HIJING.
Event-by-event fluctuations of particle ratios in central Pb + Pb collisions at 20 to 158 AGeV
(2004)
Roland, Christof ; 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 ; Kornaś, 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 ; Roland, Gunther ; Richard, Agnes Carol Joanna ; 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
In the vicinity of the QCD phase transition, critical fluctuations have been predicted to lead to non-statistical fluctuations of particle ratios, depending on the nature of the phase transition. Recent results of the NA49 energy scan program show a sharp maximum of the ratio of K+ to Pi+ yields in central Pb+Pb collisions at beam energies of 20-30 AGeV. This observation has been interpreted as an indication of a phase transition at low SPS energies. We present first results on event-by-event fluctuations of the kaon to pion and proton to pion ratios at beam energies close to this maximum.
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.
Mitrovski, Michael K. ; 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 ; Cerny, Vladimír ; Christakoglou, Panagiotis ; Chvala, Ondrej ; Cramer, John G. ; Csató, Péter ; Darmenov, Nikolay ; Dimitrov, Anton ; Dinkelaker, Peter ; Eckardt, Volker ; Filip, Peter ; Fischer, Hans Gerhard ; 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 ; 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 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 ; Perl, Katarzyna ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Pikna, Miroslav ; Pinsky, Lawrence ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; 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 ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Wetzler, Alexander Albert ; Włodarczyk, Zbigniew ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimányi, József
A non-monotonic energy dependence of the K + / pi + ratio with a sharp maximum close to 30 A GeV is observed in central Pb+Pb collisions. Within a statistical model of the early stage, this is interpreted as a sign of the phase transition to a QGP, which causes a sharp change in the energy dependence of the strangeness to entropy ratio. This observation naturally motivates us to study the production of multistrange hyperons (Xi, Omega) as a function of the beam energy. Furthermore it was suggested that the kinematic freeze-out of Omega takes place directly at QGP hadronization. If this is indeed the case, the transverse momentum spectra of the Omega directly reflect the transverse expansion velocity of a hadronizing QGP. In this report we show preliminary NA49 results on Omega - and Omega + production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 40 and 158 A GeV and compare them to measurements of Xi - and Xi + production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 30, 40, 80 and 158 A GeV.
Mischke, André ; Afanasiev, Sergey V. ; Antičić, Tome ; Baatar, B. ; Barna, Daniel ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Barton, Robert Allan ; Betev, Latchezar ; Białkowska, Helena ; Billmeier, Anja ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Blume, Christoph ; Boimska, Bożena ; Botje, Michiel ; Bracinik, Juraj ; Bramm, Roland ; Brun, René ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Cerny, Vladimír ; Chvala, Ondrej ; Cramer, John G. ; Csató, Péter ; Dinkelaker, Peter ; Eckardt, Volker ; 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 ; Igo, George J. ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Kadija, Krešo ; Karev, Alexandre ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kraus, Ingrid ; Kreps, Michal ; Leeuwen, Marco van ; Lévai, Péter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Mayes, Bill W. ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Meurer, Christine ; Mitrovski, Michael Kosta ; Molnár, József ; Nelson, John M. ; 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 ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sammer, Thomas ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seyboth, Peter ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Sitar, Branislav ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Squier, Gordon Thomas Anderson ; 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 ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimányi, József
Rapidity distributions for $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons in central Pb-Pb collisions at 40, 80 and 158 A$\cdot$GeV and for ${\rm K}_{s}^{0}$ mesons at 158 A$\cdot$GeV are presented. The lambda multiplicities are studied as a function of collision energy together with AGS and RHIC measurements and compared to model predictions. A different energy dependence of the $\Lambda/\pi$ and $\bar{\Lambda}/\pi$ is observed. The $\bar{\Lambda}/\Lambda$ ratio shows a steep increase with collision energy. Evidence for a $\bar{\Lambda}/\bar{\rm p}$ ratio greater than 1 is found at 40 A$\cdot$GeV.
Mischke, André ; Afanasiev, Sergey V. ; Antičić, Tome ; Baatar, B. ; Barna, Daniel ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Barton, Robert Allan ; Behler, Matthias ; Betev, Latchezar ; Białkowska, Helena ; Billmeier, Anja ; Blume, Christoph ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Boimska, Bożena ; Botje, Michiel ; Bracinik, Juraj ; Bramm, Roland ; Brun, René ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Cerny, Vladimír ; Chvala, Ondrej ; 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 ; Igo, George J. ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Kadija, Krešo ; Karev, Alexandre ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kraus, Ingrid ; Kreps, Michal ; Leeuwen, Marco van ; Lévai, Péter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Mayes, Bill W. ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Meurer, Christine ; Mischke, André ; Mitrovski, Michael Kosta ; Molnár, József ; Nelson, John M. ; 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 ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sammer, Thomas ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seyboth, Peter ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Sitar, Branislav ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Squier, Gordon Thomas Anderson ; 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 ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimányi, József
Rapidity distributions for Lambda and anti-Lambda hyperons in central Pb-Pb collisions at 40, 80 and 158 AGeV and for K 0 s mesons at 158 AGeV are presented. The lambda multiplicities are studied as a function of collision energy together with AGS and RHIC measurements and compared to model predictions. A different energy dependence of the Lambda/pi and anti-Lambda/pi is observed. The anti-Lambda/Lambda ratio shows a steep increase with collision energy. Evidence for a anti-Lambda/anti-p ratio greater than 1 is found at 40 AGeV.
Report from NA49
(2004)
Gaździcki, Marek ; 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 ; Filip, Peter ; Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Gál, József ; 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
The most recent data of NA49 on hadron production in nuclear collisions at CERN SPS energies are presented. Anomalies in the energy dependence of pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions are observed. They suggest that the onset of deconfinement is located at about 30 AGeV. Large multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations are measured for collisions of intermediate mass systems at 158 AGeV. The need for a new experimental programme at the CERN SPS is underlined.
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.
Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; 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 ; 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 ; Mrówczynski, 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 ; Zimanyi, József
The hadronic final state of central Pb+Pb collisions at 20, 30, 40, 80, and 158 AGeV has been measured by the CERN NA49 collaboration. The mean transverse mass of pions and kaons at midrapidity stays nearly constant in this energy range, whereas at lower energies, at the AGS, a steep increase with beam energy was measured. Compared to p+p collisions as well as to model calculations, anomalies in the energy dependence of pion and kaon production at lower SPS energies are observed. These findings can be explained, assuming that the energy density reached in central A+A collisions at lower SPS energies is sufficient to transform the hot and dense nuclear matter into a deconfined phase.
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A. ; Segato, G. ; Selyuzhenkov, Ilya ; Senyukov, Serhiy ; Seo, Jeewon ; Serci, S. ; Serradilla, Eulogio ; Sevcenco, Adrian ; Sgura, I. ; Shabetai, Alexandre ; Shabratova, G. ; Shahoyan, Ruben ; Sharma, Natasha ; Sharma, S. ; Shigaki, Kenta ; Shimomura, Maya ; Shtejer, Katherin ; Sibiriak, Yury ; Siciliano, M. ; Sicking, E. ; Siddhanta, Sabyasachi ; Siemiarczuk, Teodor ; Silvermyr, David Olle Rickard ; Silvestre, Catherine Micaela ; Simonetti, Giuseppe ; Singaraju, Rama Narayana ; Singh, R. ; Singha, Subhash ; Sinha, Bikash ; Sarkar-Sinha, Tinku ; Sitar, Branislav ; Sitta, Mario ; Skaali, Toralf Bernhard ; Skjerdal, K. ; Smakal, R. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Snellings, Raimond ; Sogaard, C. ; Soltz, Ron ; Son, H. ; Song, M. ; Song, J. ; Soos, C. ; Soramel, Francesca ; Sputowska, Iwona Anna ; Spyropoulou-Stassinaki, Martha ; Srivastava, Brijesh Kumar ; Stachel, Johanna ; Stan, Ionel ; Stan, Ionel ; Stefanek, Grzegorz ; Steinbeck, T. ; Steinpreis, M. ; Stenlund, Evert Anders ; Steyn, Gideon Francois ; Stiller, Johannes Hendrik ; Stocco, Diego ; Stolpovskiy, M. ; Strabykin, K. ; Strmen, Peter ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Subieta Vasquez, Martin Alfonso ; Sugitate, Toru ; Suire, Christophe Pierre ; Sukhorukov, M. ; Sultanov, Rishat ; Šumbera, Michal ; Šuša, Tatjana ; De Toledo, A. Szanto ; Szarka, Imrich ; Szostak, A. ; Tagridis, C. ; Takahashi, Jun ; Tapia Takaki, Jesus Daniel ; Tauro, Arturo ; Tejeda Muñoz, Guillermo ; Telesca, Adriana ; Terrevoli, Cristina ; Thäder, Jochen ; Thomas, Deepa ; Tieulent, Raphael Noel ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Toia, Alberica ; Torii, H. ; Toscano, L. ; Truesdale, David Christopher ; Trzaska, Wladyslaw Henryk ; Tsuji, Tomoya ; Tumkin, Alexandr ; Turrisi, Rosario ; Tveter, Trine Spedstad ; Ulery, Jason Glyndwr ; Ullaland, Kjetil ; Ulrich, Jiri ; Uras, Antonio ; Urban, J. ; Urciuoli, G. M. ; Usai, Gianluca ; Vajzer, Michal ; Vala, Martin ; Valencia Palomo, Lizardo ; Vallero, Sara ; Kolk, Naomi van der ; Vyvre, Pierre vande ; Leeuwen, Marco van ; Vannucci, L. ; Vargas Treviño, Maria Aurora Diozcora ; Varma, Raghava ; Vasileiou, Maria ; Vasiliev, Andrey ; Vechernin, Vladimir ; Veldhoen, Misha ; Venaruzzo, Massimo ; Vercellin, Ermanno ; Vergara, S. ; Vernet, Renaud ; Verweij, Marta ; Vicković, Linda ; Viesti, Giuseppe ; Vikhlyantsev, O. ; Vilakazi, Zabulon ; Villalobos Baillie, Orlando ; Vinogradov, Alexander A. ; Vinogradov, Leonid ; Vinogradov, Yury I. ; Virgili, Tiziano ; Viyogi, Yogendra P. ; Vodopyanov, Alexander ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Voloshin, Kirill ; Volpe, Giacomo ; Haller, Barthélémy von ; Vranić, Danilo ; Ovrebekk, G. ; Vrlakova, Janka ; Vulpescu, Bogdan ; Vyushin, Alexey ; Wagner, Boris ; Wagner, V. ; Wan, R. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, D. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, M. ; Watanabe, K. ; Wessels, Johannes P. ; Westerhoff, Uwe ; Wiechula, Jens ; Wikne, Jon ; Wilde, Martin ; Wilk, Grzegorz Andrzej ; Wilk, A. ; Williams, M. C.S. ; Windelband, Bernd ; Karampatsos, L. Xaplanteris ; Yaldo, Chris G. ; Yang, H. ; Yang, S. ; Yasnopolskiy, S. ; Yi, J. ; Yin, Zhongbao ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Yoon, J. ; Yu, W. ; Yuan, X. ; Yushmanov, Igor E. ; Zach, C. ; Zampolli, Chiara ; Zaporozhets, Sergey ; Zarochentsev, Andrey ; Závada, Petr ; Zaviyalov, Nikolaj ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zelnicek, P. ; Zgura, Ion-Sorin ; Zhalov, Mikhail ; Zhang, H. ; Zhang, X. ; Zhou, D. ; Zhou, F. ; Zhou, Y. ; Zhu, X. ; Zhu, J. ; Zhu, J. ; Zichichi, Antonino ; Zimmermann, Alice ; Zinovjev, Gennady M. ; Zoccarato, Y. ; Zynovyev, M.
The ALICE Zero Degree Calorimeter system (ZDC) is composed of two identical sets of calorimeters, placed at opposite sides with respect to the interaction point, 114 meters away from it, complemented by two small forward electromagnetic calorimeters (ZEM). Each set of detectors consists of a neutron (ZN) and a proton (ZP) ZDC. They are placed at zero degrees with respect to the LHC axis and allow to detect particles emitted close to beam direction, in particular neutrons and protons emerging from hadronic heavy-ion collisions (spectator nucleons) and those emitted from electromagnetic processes. For neutrons emitted by these two processes, the ZN calorimeters have nearly 100% acceptance.
During the √sNN = 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb data-taking, the ALICE Collaboration studied forward neutron emission with a dedicated trigger, requiring a minimum energy deposition in at least one of the two ZN. By exploiting also the information of the two ZEM calorimeters it has been possible to separate the contributions of electromagnetic and hadronic processes and to study single neutron vs. multiple neutron emission.
The measured cross sections of single and mutual electromagnetic dissociation of Pb nuclei at √sNN = 2.76 TeV, with neutron emission, are σsingle EMD = 187:4 ± 0.2 (stat.)−11.2+13.2 (syst.) b and σmutual EMD = 5.7 ± 0.1 (stat.) ±0.4 (syst.) b, respectively [1]. This is the first measurement of electromagnetic dissociation of 208Pb nuclei at the LHC energies, allowing a test of electromagnetic dissociation theory in a new energy regime. The experimental results are compared to the predictions from a relativistic electromagnetic dissociation model.
Bächler, Joachim ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Białkowska, Helena ; Bock, Rudolf ; Brockmann, Robert ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Chase, S. I. ; Derado, Ivan ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eschke, Jürgen ; Ferenc, Daniel ; Fleischmann, B. ; Foka, Panagiota ; Fuchs, Michael ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Harris, John W. ; Heck, Wilfried ; Hoffmann, Matthias ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kadija, Krešo ; Keidel, Ralf ; Kosiec, Jacek ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kühmichel, Andreas ; Lahanas, Michael ; Lee, Jae-Yun ; Ljubičić, Ante ; Margetis, Spyridon ; 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. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Rai, Gulshan ; Rauch, Wolfgang Hans ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Roland, Gunther ; Rothard, Hermann ; Runge, Kay ; Sandoval, Andres ; Schambach, Joachim ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schmoetten, Emile ; Schneider, Ingo ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Stefański, Piotr ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Teitelbaum, Lawrence Paul ; Tincknell, Mark L. ; Tonse, Shaheen ; Vasileiadis, Georgios ; Vesztergombi, György ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wenig, Siegfried
The transverse momentum and rapidity distributions of negative hadrons and participant protons have been measured for central 32S+ 32S collisions at plab=200 GeV/c per nucleon. The proton mean rapidity shift < Delta y>~1.6 and mean transverse momentum <pT>~0.6 GeV/c are much higher than in pp or peripheral AA collisions and indicate an increase in the nuclear stopping power. All pT spectra exhibit similar source temperatures. Including previous results for K0s Lambda , and Lambda -bar, we account for all important contributions to particle production.
Blume, Christoph ; Afanasiev, Sergey V. ; Antičić, Tome ; Baatar, B. ; Barna, Daniel ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Barton, Robert Allan ; Behler, Matthias ; Betev, Latchezar ; Białkowska, Helena ; Billmeier, Anja ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Boimska, Bożena ; Botje, Michiel ; Bracinik, Juraj ; Bramm, Roland ; Brun, René ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Černý, Vladimír ; Chvala, Ondrej ; 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, Ewa ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Höhne, Claudia ; Igo, George J. ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Kowalski, Marek ; Kraus, Ingrid ; Kreps, Michal ; Leeuwen, Marco van ; Lednický, Richard ; Lévai, Péter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Mayes, Bill W. ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Meurer, Christine ; Mischke, André ; Mitrovski, Michael Kosta ; Molnár, József ; Nelson, John M. ; 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 ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sammer, Thomas ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seyboth, Peter ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Sitar, Branislav ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Smolik, Jan ; Squier, Gordon Thomas Anderson ; 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 ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimányi, József
The large acceptance and high momentum resolution as well as the significant particle identification capabilities of the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS allow for a broad study of fluctuations and correlations in hadronic interactions. In the first part recent results on event-by-event charge and p_t fluctuations are presented. Charge fluctuations in central Pb+Pb reactions are investigated at three different beam energies (40, 80, and 158 AGeV), while for the p_t fluctuations the focus is put on the system size dependence at 158 AGeV. In the second part recent results on Bose Einstein correlations of h-h- pairs in minimum bias Pb+Pb reactions at 40 and 158 AGeV, as well as of K+K+ and K-K- pairs in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV are shown. Additionally, other types of two particle correlations, namely pi p, Lambda p, and Lambda Lambda correlations, have been measured by the NA49 experiment. Finally, results on the energy and system size dependence of deuteron coalescence are discussed.
Appelshäuser, Harald ; Bächler, Joachim ; Bailey, Stephen John ; Barnby, Lee Stuart ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Barton, Robert Allan ; Białkowska, Helena ; Billmeier, Anja ; Blyth, Charles O. ; Bock, Rudolf ; Bormann, Christian ; Brady, Franklin Paul ; Brockmann, Robert ; Brun, René ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Cooper, Glenn E. ; Cramer, John G. ; Csato, Peter ; Dunn, Jason ; Eckardt, Volker ; Eckhardt, Frank ; Ferguson, M. I. ; Fischer, Hans Gerhard ; Flierl, Dominik Bernhard ; Fodor, Zoltan ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Fuchs, Matthias ; Gabler, Frank ; Gal, Jozsef ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Gładysz-Dziaduś, Ewa ; Grebieszkow, Jaroslaw ; Günther, Jörg ; Harris, John W. ; Hegyi, Sandor ; Henkel, Torsten ; Hill, L. A. ; Huang, Isaac ; Hümmler, Holm Gero ; Igo, George J. ; Irmscher, Detlef ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; Jones, Peter Graham ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kowalski, Marek ; Lasiuk, Brian ; Lévai, Peter ; Malakhov, Aleksandr I. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Melkumov, Georgy L. ; Mock, Andreas ; Molnár, József ; Nelson, John M. ; Oldenburg, Markus D. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Palla, 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 ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Semenov, Alexei Yu. ; Schäfer, Erich ; Schmischke, Dirk ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schönfelder, Stefan ; Seyboth, Peter ; Seyerlein, Jürgen ; Sikler, Ferenc ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Squier, Gordon Thomas Anderson ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Szentpetery, Imre ; Sziklay, Janos ; Toy, Milton Y. ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Trentalage, Stephen ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Vesztergombi, György ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wang, Feipeng ; Weerasundara, Dhammika D. ; Wenig, Siegfried ; Whitten, Charles A. ; Wienold, Thomas ; Wood, Lindsay ; Yates, Tim A. ; Xu, Nu ; Zimanyi, Jozsef ; Zhu, Xue-Zhou ; Zybert, Ryszard
Two-particle correlation functions of negative hadrons over wide phase space, and transverse mass spectra of negative hadrons and deuterons near mid-rapidity have been measured in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon by the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS. A novel Coulomb correction procedure for the negative two-particle correlations is employed making use of the measured oppositely charged particle correlation. Within an expanding source scenario these results are used to extract the dynamic characteristics of the hadronic source, resolving the ambiguities between the temperature and transverse expansion velocity of the source, that are unavoidable when single and two particle spectra are analysed separately. The source shape, the total duration of the source expansion, the duration of particle emission, the freeze-out temperature and the longitudinal and transverse expansion velocities are deduced.
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.
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.
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
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.
Observation of an exotic S = -2, Q = -2 baryon resonance in proton-proton collisions at the CERN SPS
(2003)
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 ; 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 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 ; 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 ; Zimányi, József
Results of resonance searches in the Xi- pi-, Xi- pi+, antiXi+ pi- and antiXi+ 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/c^2 and width below the detector resolution of about 0.018 GeV/c^2. The significance is estimated to be 4.0 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 (d s d s ubar). At the same mass a peak is observed in the Xi- pi+ spectrum which is a candidate for the Xi_(3/2)^0 member of this isospin quartet with a quark content of (d s u s dbar). The corresponding antibaryon spectra also show enhancements at the same invariant mass.