Strangelet search in Pb-Pb interactions at 158 GeV/c per nucleon

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作者
Appelquist, G
Baglin, C
Beringer, J
Bohm, C
Borer, K
Bussiere, A
Dittus, F
Elsener, K
Frei, D
Gorodetzky, P
Guillaud, JP
Hugentobler, E
Klingenberg, R
Linden, T
Lohmann, KD
Moser, U
Pal, T
Pretzl, K
Schacher, J
Sellden, B
Stoffel, F
Tuominiemi, J
Zhang, QP
机构
[1] CERN,DIV SL,CH-1211 GENEVA 23,SWITZERLAND
[2] LAB ANNECY LE VIEUX PHYS PARTICULES,CNRS,IN2P3,F-74941 ANNECY LE VIEUX,FRANCE
[3] HELSINKI UNIV,DEPT PHYS,FIN-00014 HELSINKI,FINLAND
[4] UNIV STOCKHOLM,DEPT PHYS,S-11385 STOCKHOLM,SWEDEN
[5] CTR RECH NUCL STRASBOURG,CNRS,IN2P3,F-67037 STRASBOURG,FRANCE
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3907
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The NA52 experiment searches for long-lived massive strange quark matter particles, so-called strangelets, produced in Pb-Pb collisions at a beam momentum of p(lab) = 158 A GeV/c. Upper limits for the production of strangelets at zero degree production angle covering a mass to charge ratio up to 120 GeV/c(2) and lifetimes t(lab) greater than or similar to 1.2 mu s are given. The data presented here were taken during the 1994 lead beam running period at CERN.
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