Deuteron production in central Pb plus Pb collisions at 158A GeV

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作者
Afanasiev, SV [1 ]
Anticic, T
Bächler, J
Barna, D
Barnby, LS
Bartke, J
Barton, RA
Betev, L
Bialkowska, H
Billmeier, A
Blume, C
Blyth, CO
Boimska, B
Bracinik, J
Brady, FP
Brun, R
Buncic, P
Carr, L
Cebra, D
Cooper, GE
Cramer, JG
Csató, P
Eckardt, V
Eckhardt, F
Ferenc, D
Fischer, HG
Fodor, Z
Foka, P
Freund, P
Friese, V
Ftacnik, J
Gál, J
Ganz, R
Gazdzicki, M
Gladysz, E
Grebieszkow, J
Harris, JW
Hegyi, S
Hlinka, V
Höhne, C
Igo, G
Ivanov, M
Jacobs, P
Janik, R
Jones, PG
Kadija, K
Kolesnikov, VI
Kowalski, M
Lasiuk, B
Lévai, P
机构
[1] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia
[2] Univ Athens, Dept Phys, Athens, Greece
[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[4] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[5] Slovak Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Bratislava, Slovakia
[6] KFKI Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, Budapest, Hungary
[7] CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[8] Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[9] Gesell Schwerionenforsch mbH, Darmstadt, Germany
[10] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[11] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Fachbereich Phys, D-6000 Frankfurt, Germany
[12] Univ Houston, Houston, TX USA
[13] Kent State Univ, Kent, OH 44242 USA
[14] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA
[15] Univ Marburg, Fachbereich Phys, D-3550 Marburg, Germany
[16] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[17] Inst Nucl Studies, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
[18] Univ Warsaw, Inst Expt Phys, Warsaw, Poland
[19] Univ Washington, Nucl Phys Lab, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[20] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT USA
[21] Rudjer Boskovic Inst, Zagreb, Croatia
基金
匈牙利科学研究基金会; 英国工程与自然科学研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00746-2
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
Experimental results on deuteron emission from central Pb + Pb collisions (E-beam = 158A GeV, fixed target), obtained by NA49 at the CERN SPS accelerator, are presented. The transverse mass in, distribution was measured near mid-rapidity (2.0 < y < 2.5) in the range of 0 < m(t) - m(0) < 0.9 GeV/c(2) (0 < p(t) < 2.0 GeV/c) for the 4% most central collisions. An exponential fit gives an inverse slope T-d = (450 +/- 30) MeV and a yield dN(d)/dy = 0.34 +/- 0.03. The coalescence factor B-2 (m(t) = m(0))=(3.5 +/- 1.0) . 10(-4) GeV2 and its m(t)-dependence are deter-mined and discussed in terms of a model that includes the collective expansion of the source created in a collision. The derived Gaussian size parameter R-G Of the emission volume is consistent with earlier HBT results on the source of pion emission. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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