Data on φ -production obtained by the CERN NA49 experiment for central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 GeV/u are presented. Compared with pp interactions the φ -yield shows substantial strangeness enhancement: the φ /π ratio is found to increase by a factor of 2.6 ± 0.6, which is approximately the square of the K/π enhancement.
5% most central collosions, MT - M0 = 0 - 1.4 GeV, preliminary data.
5% most central events.
Proton-deuteron radiative capture has been studied with polarized deuterons at a laboratory deuteron energy E d = 45 MeV. Precise data for the tensor analyzing power A yy have been measured in the angular range 50° to 160°. Three-nucleon Faddeev wave functions in the initial scattering and final bound state are calculated using realistic nucleon-nucleon potentials. Mesonic exchange currents are included according to Siegert's theorem. Comparison to other recent experimental data is performed as well.
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K − /K + and p ¯ / p ratios measured in 158 A·GeV Pb+Pb collisions are shown as a function of transverse momentum P T and centrality in top 8.5% central region. Little centrality dependence of the K − / K + and p ¯ / p ratios is observed. The transverse mass m T distribution and dN/dy of K + , K − , p and p ¯ around mid-rapidity are obtained. The temperature T ch and the chemical potentials for both light and strange quarks (μ q , μ s ) at chemical freeze-out are determined by applying simple thermodynamical model to the present data. The resultant μ q , μ s and T ch are compared with those obtained from similar analysis of SPS S+A and AGS Si+A data. The chemical freeze-out temperature T ch at CERN energies is higher than thermal freeze-out temperature T fo which is extracted from m T distribution of charged hadrons. At AGS energies T ch is close to T fo .
Data obtained from the fit of MT spectra.
Data obtained from the fit of MT spectra.
We report the experimental measurements on the multiplicity of slow target associated particles, in the forward (θlab≤ 90°) and backward (θlab > 90°) hemispheres, and the different correlations betwee
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The kinetic energy spectrum and the polarization of the PSI neutron beam produced in the reaction 12C(p,n)X at 0° with 590 MeV polarized protons were investigated. A strong energy dependence of the ne
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A polarized proton beam extracted from SATURNE II and the Saclay polarized proton target were used to determine the spin correlation parameter Aoosk and the rescattering observablesKos″ so; Dos″ok, Nos″sn, andNonsk at 1.80 and 2.10 GeV. The beam polarization was oriented perpendicular to the beam direction in the horizontal scattering plane and the target polarization was directed either along the vertical axis or longitudinally. Left-right and up-down asymmetries in the second scattering were measured. A check for the beam optimization with the beam and target polarizations oriented vertically provided other observables, of which results forDonon andKonno at 1.80, 1.85, 2.04, and 2.10 GeV are listed here. The new data at 2.10 GeV suggest a smooth energy dependence of spin triplet scattering amplitudes at fixed angles in the vicinity of this energy.
Spin correlation parameter CSL measured with the beam polarisation measuredalong the +-S direction and the target polarisation along the +-L axis. Additional 4.3 PCT systematic normalisation uncertainty.
Measurement of the rescattering parameter KSS with the beam polarisation inthe +- S direction. Additional 6.7 PCT systematic error.
Measurement of the rescattering parameter KSS with the beam polarisation inthe +- S direction. Additional 6.7 PCT systematic error.
J/ ψ and ψ ′ production cross-sections are measured in pp and pd collisions at 450 GeV/ c at the CERN-SPS. The Drell-Yan cross section for muon pairs in the mass range [4.3–8.0] GeV/ c 2 is also determined in the same experiment.
The measured cross section for J/PSI production for P P and P DEUTERIUM interactions times their branching ratio to MU+ MU- pairs.. The fraction of the systematic error (DSYS) which must be taken into account in comparison of the two targets is 0.06 (0.13) for the P (DEUT) target.
The measured cross section for PSI(3685) production in P P and P DEUTERIUM interactions times their branching ratio to MU+ MU- pairs.. The fraction of the systematic error (DSYS) which must be taken into account in comparison of the two targets is 0.003 (0.006) for the P (DEUT) target.
The measured cross section for Drell Yan production in P P and P DEUTERIUM interactions.. The fraction of the systematic error (DSYS) which must be taken into account in comparison of the two targets is 0.5 (1.2) for the P (DEUT) target.
The complete charge distribution of products from Au nuclei fragmenting in nuclear emulsion at 10.7A GeV has been measured. Multiplicities of produced particles and particles associated with the targe
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The pion absorption reaction (π+,3p) on Ar was studied at pion energies of 70, 118, 162 and 239 MeV, and on N and Xe at 239 MeV. The 3p cross secti
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In a joint effort the CERES/NA45 and TAPS collaborations have measured low-mass electron pairs in p–Be and p–Au collisions at 450 GeV/c at the CERN SPS. In the range covered up to ≈ 1.5 GeV/c2 the mass spectra from p–Be and p–Au collisions are well explained by electron pairs from decays of neutral mesons. For p–Au our result is new. For p–Be, the simultaneously measured electron pair inclusive pair spectrum in which instrumental uncertainties are highly reduced. We confirm the earlier finding of HELIOS-1 with significantly reduced systematic uncertainties of 23% in the mass range below 450 MeV/c2, and of 28% in the mass range above 750 MeV/c2 at 90% confidence limit. Any unconventional source of electron pairs is limited by these error margins as the percentage fraction of the hadronic contribution.
Relative production cross sections.