Enhanced production of low mass electron pairs in 200-GeV/u S - Au collisions at the CERN SPS

The CERES collaboration Agakichiev, G. ; Baur, R. ; Breskin, A. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 75 (1995) 1272-1275, 1995.
Inspire Record 393957 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.47988

We report on measurements of low-mass electron pairs in 450 GeV p-Be, p-Au, and 200 GeV/nucleon S-Au collisions at central rapidities. For the proton induced interactions, the low-mass spectra are, within the systematic errors, satisfactorily explained by electron pairs from hadron decays, whereas in the S-Au system an enhancement over the hadronic contributions by a factor of 5.0±0.7(stat)±2.0(syst) in the invariant mass range 0.2<m<1.5GeV/c2 is observed. The properties of the excess suggest that it arises from two-pion annihilation ππ→e+e−.

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Charged particle multiplicities in nuclear collisions at 200-GeV/N

The NA35 collaboration Bächler, J. ; Bartke, J. ; Bialkowska, H. ; et al.
Z.Phys.C 51 (1991) 157-162, 1991.
Inspire Record 320907 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.14983

Data on multiplicities of charged particles produced in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon are presented. It is shown that the mean multiplicity of negative particles is proportional to the mean number of nucleons participating in the collision both for nucleus-nucleus and proton-nucleus collisions. The apparent consistency of pion multiplicity data with the assumption of an incoherent superposition of nucleon-nucleon collisions is critically discussed.

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Kaon production in Au + Au collisions at 11.6-A-GeV/c.

The E-802 collaboration Ahle, L. ; Akiba, Y. ; Ashktorab, K. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.C 58 (1998) 3523-3538, 1998.
Inspire Record 483011 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.25644

A systematic study of the spectra and yields of K+ and K− is reported by experiment E866 as a function of centrality in Au+Au collisions at 11.6A GeV/c. The invariant transverse spectra for both kaon species are well described by exponentials in mt, with inverse slope parameters that are largest at midrapidity and which increase with centrality. The inverse slopes of the K+ spectra are slightly larger than the inverse slopes of the K− spectra. The kaon rapidity density peaks at midrapidity with the K+ distribution wider in rapidity than K−. The integrated total yields of K+ and K− increase nonlinearly and steadily with the number of projectile participants. The yield per participant for kaons is two to three times larger than the yield from N−N collisions. This enhancement suggests that the majority of kaons in central Au+Au reactions are produced in secondary hadronic collisions. There is no evidence for an onset of additional kaon production from a possible small volume of baryon-rich quark-gluon plasma. The differences between K+ and K− rapidity distributions and transverse spectra are consistent with a lower phase space for K− production due to a higher energy threshold. These differences also exclude simple thermal models that assume emission from a common equilibrated system.

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A Search for excited fermions in electron - proton collisions at HERA

The ZEUS collaboration Derrick, M. ; Krakauer, D. ; Magill, S. ; et al.
Z.Phys.C 65 (1995) 627-648, 1995.
Inspire Record 378836 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.45049

A search for excited states of the standard model fermions was performed using the ZEUS detector at the HERA electron-proton collider, operating at a centre of mass energy of 296 GeV. In a sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.55 pb−1, no evidence was found for any resonant state decaying into final states composed of a fermion and a gauge boson. Limits on the coupling strength times branching ratio of excited fermions are presented for masses between 50 GeV and 250 GeV, extending previous search regions significantly.

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Fragmentation of relativistic carbon nuclei undergoing inelastic collisions with progane and tantalum nuclei.

Belaga, V.V. ; Bondarenko, A.I. ; Kanarek, T. ; et al.
Phys.Atom.Nucl. 59 (1996) 1935-1941, 1996.
Inspire Record 403063 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.17175

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Intermediate mass fragment emission in heavy ion collisions: Energy and system mass dependence

Sisan, D. ; Bauer, W. ; Bjarki, O. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.C 63 (2001) 027602, 2001.
Inspire Record 552389 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.25393

Emission of intermediate mass fragments (IMFs) (Z>~3) from central collisions of 40Ar+45Sc (E/A=35–115 MeV), 58Ni+58Ni (E/A=35–105 MeV), and 86Kr+93Nb (E/A=35–95 MeV) was studied. For each system, the average number of IMFs per event increased with beam energy, reached a maximum, and then decreased. The beam energy of peak IMF production increased linearly with the combined mass of the system. The number of IMFs emitted at the peak also increased with the system mass. Percolation calculations showed a weaker dependence of the peak beam energy and the number of IMFs on the total mass of the system.

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Multistep production of eta and hard pi0 mesons in subthreshold Au Au collisions.

Wolf, A.R. ; Appenheimer, M. ; Averbeck, R. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 80 (1998) 5281-5284, 1998.
Inspire Record 471975 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.41989

The neutral π0 and η mesons are studied in 197Au−197Au collisions at an incident energy of 800AMeV, substantially below the threshold for η production in N−N collisions. While the gross π0 multiplicity increases almost linearly with the number of participant nucleons, the multiplicities of η and hard π0 mesons show a stronger than linear dependence. The nonlinearity is governed by the average transverse-mass excess 〈mt〉−(s−2mN) of the mesons and is insensitive to their final-state interaction in the nuclear medium.

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Anomalous J / psi suppression in Pb + Pb collisions at 158-A-GeV/c

The NA50 collaboration Gonin, Michel ; Abreu, M.C. ; Alexa, C. ; et al.
Nucl.Phys.A 610 (1996) 404C-417C, 1996.
Inspire Record 432728 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.36494

Cross sections for J ψ,ψ′ and Drell-Yan production in Pb+Pb collisions at 158×A GeV/c are presented and compared with results obtained by the NA38 and NA51 collaborations. The Pb+Pb data have been collected by the NA50 collaboration using the NA38 dimuon spectrometer. The Drell-Yan mechanism is found to scale as (A projectile · B target ) in p+B target and A projectile + B target collisions including Pb+Pb collisions. Regarding J ψ , an anomalous suppression is observed in Pb+Pb collisions with respect to the suppression observed in p+B target , O+B target and S+U collisions. The cross section ratios ψ′ ( J ψ ) are similar in Pb+Pb and S+U collisions.

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Electron positron pair production in Coulomb collisions of ultrarelativistic sulphur ions with fixed targets

Vane, C.R. ; Datz, S. ; Dittner, P.F. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 69 (1992) 1911-1914, 1992.
Inspire Record 343889 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.19818

Angular and momentum distributions have been measured for positrons from electron-positron pairs created in peripheral collisions of 6.4-TeV sulfur ions with fixed targets of Al, Pd, and Au. The data are compared with results of several theoretical treatments. Measured differential cross sections peak at low momentum (≤1 MeV/c), extend significantly to much higher momenta (>17 MeV/c), and concentrate sharply in the forward direction, along the ion-beam axis. Positron yields scale as the square of the target nuclear charge as predicted by theory.

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Multiplicity characteristics of particles produced in C-12 emulsion collisions at 4.5-A/GeV/c

Ahmad, M.S. ; Khan, M.Q.R. ; Siddique, K.A. ; et al.
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 10 (1995) 845-857, 1995.
Inspire Record 401127 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.40450

Experimental data on multiplicities and correlations of charged particles of different types produced in collisions of 4.5 A GeV/c carbon-12 with emulsion are reported and discussed. The data are compared with the results of other experiments on nucleus–nucleus and hadron–nucleus collisions. It is found that the particle production mechanism in nucleus–nucleus collisions is almost the same as in hadron–nucleus collisions. It is also observed that the shower particles' multiplicity distributions obey a KNO type scaling law, which supports the aforementioned result.

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