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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
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
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.
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 ; 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 event-by-event electric charge fluctuations in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20, 30, 40, 80 and 158 AGeV. The observed fluctuations are close to those expected for a gas of pions correlated by global charge conservation only. These fluctuations are considerably larger than those calculated for an ideal gas of deconfined quarks and gluons. The present measurements do not necessarily exclude reduced fluctuations from a quark-gluon plasma because these might be masked by contributions from resonance decays.
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 ; 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 ; Kolesnikov, Vadim I. ; Kollegger, Thorsten ; Kornas, Ewelina ; 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
Production of Lambda and Antilambda hyperons was measured in central Pb-Pb collisions at 40, 80, and 158 A GeV beam energy on a fixed target. Transverse mass spectra and rapidity distributions are given for all three energies. The Lambda/pi ratio at mid-rapidity and in full phase space shows a pronounced maximum between the highest AGS and 40 A GeV SPS energies, whereas the anti-Lambda}/pi ratio exhibits a monotonic increase. PACS numbers: 25.75.-q
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.
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.
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.
Directed and elliptic flow of charged pions and protons in Pb + Pb collisions at 40 and 158 A GeV
(2003)
Alt, Christopher ; Antičić, Tome ; Baatar, B. ; Barna, Daniel ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Behler, Matthias ; Betev, Latchezar ; Białkowska, Helena ; Billmeier, Anja ; Blume, Christoph ; Boimska, Bożena ; Borghini, Nicolas ; Botje, Michiel ; Bracinik, Juraj ; Bramm, Roland ; Brun, René ; Bunčić, Predrag ; Černý, Vladimír ; Chvala, Ondrej ; Cooper, Glenn E. ; Cramer, John G. ; Csató, Péter ; Dinh, Phuong Mai ; Dinkelaker, Peter ; Eckardt, Volker ; Filip, Peter ; Fodor, Zoltán ; Foka, Panagiota ; Freund, Peter ; Friese, Volker ; Gál, József ; Gaździcki, Marek ; Georgopoulos, George ; Gładysz, Ewa ; Hegyi, Sándor ; Höhne, Claudia ; Jacobs, Peter Martin ; 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 ; Mrówczyński, Stanislaw ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ollitrault, Jean-Yves ; Pálla, Gabriella ; Panagiotou, Apostolos D. ; Perl, Katarzyna ; Petridis, Athanasios ; Pikna, Miroslav ; Pinsky, Lawrence ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Pühlhofer, Falk ; Reid, Jeffrey G. ; Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst ; Retyk, Waldemar ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Roland, Christof ; Roland, Gunther ; Rybczyński, Maciej ; Rybicki, Andrzej ; Sandoval, Andres ; Sann, Hans ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seyboth, Peter ; Siklér, Ferenc ; Sitar, Branislav ; Skrzypczak, Ewa ; Snellings, Raimond ; Stefanek, Grzegorz ; Stock, Reinhard ; Ströbele, Herbert ; Šuša, Tatjana ; Szentpétery, Imre ; Sziklai, János ; Trainor, Thomas A. ; Varga, Dezsö ; Vassiliou, Maria ; Veres, Gábor I. ; Vesztergombi, György ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Vranić, Danilo ; Wetzler, Alexander Albert ; Włodarczyk, Zbigniew ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zaranek, Jacek ; Zimányi, József
Directed and elliptic flow measurements for charged pions and protons are reported as a function of transverse momentum, rapidity, and centrality for 40 and 158A GeV Pb + Pb collisions as recorded by the NA49 detector. Both the standard method of correlating particles with an event plane, and the cumulant method of studying multiparticle correlations are used. In the standard method the directed flow is corrected for conservation of momentum. In the cumulant method elliptic flow is reconstructed from genuine 4, 6, and 8-particle correlations, showing the first unequivocal evidence for collective motion in A+A collisions at SPS energies.
Leeuwen, Marco van ; 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 ; 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 ; 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
The energy dependence of hadron production in central Pb+Pb collisions is presented and discussed. In particular, midrapidity m_T-spectra for pi-, K-, K+, p, bar p, d, phi, Lambda and bar Lambda at 40, 80 and 158 AGeV are shown. In addition Xi and Omega spectra are available at 158 AGeV. The spectra allow to determine the thermal freeze-out temperature T and the transverse flow velocity beta_T at the three energies. We do not observe a significant energy dependence of these parameters; furthermore there is no indication of early thermal freeze-out of Xi and Omega at 158 AGeV. Rapidity spectra for pi-, K-, K+ and phi at 40, 80 and 158 AGeV are shown, as well as first results on Omega rapidity distributions at 158 AGeV. The chemical freeze-out parameters T and mu_B at the three energies are determined from the total yields. The parameters are close to the expected phase boundary in the SPS energy range and above. Using the total yields of kaons and lambdas, the energy dependence of the strangeness to pion ratio is discussed. A maximum in this ratio is found at 40 AGeV. This maximum could indicate the formation of deconfined matter at energies above 40 AGeV. A search for open charm in a large sample of 158 AGeV events is presented. No signal is observed. This result is compared to several model predictions.