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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
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.
System-size dependence of strangeness production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at √sNN = 17.3 GeV
(2005)
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)
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.
Electric charge correlations were studied for p+p, C+C, Si+Si, and centrality selected Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt[sNN]=17.2 GeV with the NA49 large acceptance detector at the CERN SPS. In particular, long-range pseudorapidity 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.
Report from NA49
(2004)
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.
In dieser Arbeit wurde die Pionenproduktion in C + C und Si + Si - Kollisionen bei 40A GeV und 158A GeV untersucht. Dazu wurden zwei vollkommen unterschiedliche Methoden, die dE/dx- Teilchenidentifizierung und die h- - Methode, bei der der Anteil von Nicht- Pionen simuliert wird, verwendet. Die Ergebnisse beider Methoden stimmen gut überein, die Differenz fließt in den systematischen Fehler ein. Für die Bestimmung der totalen Multiplizitäten und mittleren transversalen Massen wurde die h- - Methode aufgrund ihrer größeren Akzeptanz gewählt. Zusätzlich wurde für 40A GeV C + C eine zentralitätsabhängige Analyse der Pionenmultiplizitäten vorgenommen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Analyse sollten jedoch als vorläufig angesehen werden. Die Ergebnisse meiner Analyse wurden mit der von C. Höhne [14] bei 158A GeV verglichen, sie stimmen innerhalb der Fehler überein. Es wurden Modelle zur Simulation von Kollisionen (UrQMD, Venus) vorgestellt und angewandt, um die experimentellen Ergebnisse mit den Vorhersagen der Simulationen zu vergleichen. Ein weiteres Modell (Statistical Model of the Early Stage) wurde vorgestellt, welches die qualitative und anschauliche Interpretation der Daten erlaubt. Die Ergebnisse wurden als Energie- und Systemgrößenabhängigkeitsplots zusammen mit anderen NA49- Ergebnissen, Ergebnissen anderer Experimente und Simulationsvorhersagen gezeigt und diskutiert. Der Übergang von der Unterdrückung der Pionenproduktion in Pb+Pb - Kollisionen relativ zu p+p zu einer Erhöhung der Pionenproduktion bei niedrigen SPS-Energien wurde auch bei kleinen Systemen, C + C und Si + Si , beobachtet. Eine Interpretation der Pionenmultiplizitäten mit den Statistical Model of the Early Stage legt die Vermutung nahe, dass bereits bei 40A GeV C + C - Kollisionen Quark- Gluon- Plasma gebildet wird. Diese Vermutung muss allerdings durch die Betrachtung weiterer Observabler noch bestätigt werden.
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.
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.
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.