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most citedPion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A and 30A GeV: Evidence for the onset of deconfinement

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28 papers

physics.ins-det2021

Test-beam demonstration of a TORCH prototype module

J. C. Smallwood, S. Bhasin, T. Blake +18

The TORCH time-of-flight detector is designed to provide a 15 ps timing resolution for charged particles, resulting in / particle identification up to 10 GeV/c momentum over…

physics.ins-det2019★ 9 cited

Beam tests of a large-scale TORCH time-of-flight demonstrator

Thomas H. Hancock, Srishti Bhasin, Thomas Blake +16

The TORCH time-of-flight detector is designed to provide particle identification in the momentum range 2-10 GeV/c over large areas. The detector exploits prompt Cherenkov light pro…

physics.ins-det2018★ 1 cited

Status of the TORCH time-of-flight project

Neville Harnew, Srishti Bhasin, Thomas Blake +16

TORCH is a time-of-flight detector, designed to provide charged pi/K particle identification up to a momentum of 10 GeV/c for a 10 m flight path. To achieve this level of performan…

physics.ins-det2018★ 5 cited

TORCH: a large area time-of-flight detector for particle identification

Neville Harnew, Srishti Bhasin, Thomas Blake +16

TORCH is a time-of-flight detector that is being developed for the Upgrade II of the LHCb experiment, with the aim of providing charged particle identification over the momentum ra…

nucl-ex2009★ 44 cited

System-size dependence of Lambda and Xi production in nucleus--nucleus collisions at 40A and 158A GeV measured at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

NA49 Collaboration

Results on Lambda, Anti-lambda, and Xi- production in centrality selected Pb+Pb reactions at 40A and 158A GeV and in near-central C+C and Si+Si reactions at 158A GeV are presented.…

nucl-ex2008★ 1 cited

Energy dependence of transverse momentum fluctuations in Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at 20A to 158A GeV

The NA49 Collaboration

Results are presented on event-by-event fluctuations of transverse momenta in central Pb+Pb interactions at 20, 30, 40, 80, and 158 GeV. The analysis was perfo…

nucl-ex2007★ 59 cited

Energy Dependence of Multiplicity Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions at the CERN SPS

The NA49 Collaboration, B. Lungwitz

Multiplicity fluctuations of positively, negatively and all charged hadrons in the forward hemisphere were studied in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A and 158A GeV. T…

nucl-ex2007★ 380 cited

Pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A and 30A GeV: Evidence for the onset of deconfinement

NA49 Collaboration

Results on charged pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A and 30A GeV are presented and compared to data at lower and higher energies. A rapid change of the en…

nucl-ex2007★ 58 cited

Bose-Einstein correlations of pion pairs in central Pb+Pb collisions at CERN SPS energies

NA49 Collaboration

Measurements of Bose-Einstein correlations of pion pairs in central Pb+Pb collisions were performed with the NA49 detector at the CERN SPS for beam energies of 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A,…

nucl-ex2007★ 25 cited

Rapidity and energy dependence of the electric charge correlations in A+A collisions at the SPS energies

NA49 Collaboration

Results from electric charge correlations studied with the Balance Function method in A+A collisions from 20\emph{A} to 158\emph{A} GeV are presented in two different rapidity inte…

nucl-ex2006★ 52 cited

Centrality and system size dependence of multiplicity fluctuations in nuclear collisions at 158 AGeV

NA49 Collaboration

The centrality and system size dependence of multiplicity fluctuations of charged particles produced in nuclear collisions at GeV was studied by the NA49 collaboration. Cen…

nucl-ex2006

Anisotropic Flow of Strange Particles at SPS

Grzegorz Stefanek

The elliptic flow for Lambda hyperons and K0s mesons was measured by the NA49 experiment in semicentral Pb+Pb collisions at 158A GeV. The standard method of correlating particles w…

hep-ex2006★ 137 cited

Inclusive production of charged pions in p+C collisions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum

NA49 Collaboration, C. Alt

The production of charged pions in minimum bias p+C interactions is studied using a sample of 377000 inelastic events obtained with the NA49 detector at the CERN SPS at 158 GeV/c b…

nucl-ex2006★ 8 cited

Elliptic flow of Lambda hyperons in Pb+Pb collisions at 158A GeV

G. Stefanek

The elliptic flow of Lambda hyperons has been measured by the NA49 collaboration at the CERN-SPS in semi-central Pb+Pb collisions at 158A GeV. The standard method of correlating pa…

hep-ex2005★ 128 cited

Inclusive production of charged pions in p+p collisions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum

C. Alt

New results on the production of charged pions in p+p interactions are presented. The data come from a sample of 4.8 million inelastic events obtained with the NA49 detector at the…

nucl-ex2005★ 9 cited

Upper Limit of D0 Production in Central Pb-Pb Collisions at 158A GeV

NA49 Collaboration

Results are presented from a search for the decays D0 -> Kmin piplus and D0bar -> Kplus pimin in a sample of 3.8x10^6 central Pb-Pb events collected with a beam energy of 158A GeV…

hep-ex2004★ 39 cited

System Size and Centrality Dependence of the Balance Function in A + A Collisions at s(NN)^(1/2) = 17.2 GeV

NA49 Collaboration

Electric charge correlations were studied for p+p, C+C, Si+Si and centrality selected Pb+Pb collisions at GeV with the NA49 large acceptance detector at the…

nucl-ex2004★ 27 cited

Multiplicity fluctuations in nuclear collisions at 158 A GeV

M Rybczynski

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…

nucl-ex2004★ 86 cited

Omega and Antiomega production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 40 and 158 AGeV

The NA49 collaboration, C. Alt

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 fo…

hep-ex2003★ 98 cited

Transverse Momentum Fluctuations in Nuclear Collisions at 158 AGeV

The NA49 Collaboration

Results are presented on event-by-event fluctuations in transverse momentum of charged particles, produced at forward rapidities in p+p, C+C, Si+Si and Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV…

nucl-ex2003★ 101 cited

and Production in Central Pb-Pb Collisions at 40, 80, and 158 AGeV

The NA49 Collaboration, T. Anticic

Production of Lambda and Antilambda hyperons was measured in central Pb-Pb collisions at 40, 80, and 158 AGeV beam energy on a fixed target. Transverse mass spectra and rapi…

nucl-ex2003★ 46 cited

Strangeness from 20 AGeV to 158 AGeV

Volker Friese

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…

nucl-ex2002★ 22 cited

Bose-Einstein Correlations of Charged Kaons in Central Pb+Pb Collisions at

S. V. Afanasiev

Bose-Einstein correlations of charged kaons were measured near mid-rapidity in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV by the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS. Source radii were…

nucl-ex2002★ 33 cited

Results on correlations and fluctuations from NA49

C. Blume

The large acceptance and high momentum resolution as well as the significant particle identification capabilities of the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS allow for a broad study of…