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Production of slow singly charged fragments in 200 GeV/c hadron nucleus interactions
Measurements of slow, singly charged fragments in the target rapidity region have been performed for proton and pion induced reactions with various nuclei at 200 GeV/c. Multiplicity, angular and energy distrib...
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Multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles from32S induced heavy ion interactions at 200A GeV
Multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions have been measured for32S+Al, Cu, Ag and Au at 200A GeV. The widths of the pseudorapidity distributions increase from central to peripheral collisions. The main contr...
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Bose-einstein correlations in the target fragmentation region in 200A GeV16O+nucleus collisions
Correlations between positive pions are investigated in the target fragmentation region of 200A GeV16O+nucleus collisions. The pions are measured with the Plastic Ball detector in the WA80 experiment at the CERN ...
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Upper limit for thermal direct photon production in heavy-ion collisions at 60 and 200A·GeV
The production of direct photons has been investigated in reactions ofp and16O projectiles at 60 and 200A·GeV with C and Au nuclei. Photon and π0 spectra have been measured in the pseudorapidity range 1.5≦η≦2.1 f...
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Transverse energy production in the target fragmentation region in16O-nucleus reactions at 60 and 200A GeV
Charged pion yields and transverse energies of baryons are measured for the reaction16O+Cu, Ag, Au at 60 and 200A GeV bombarding energy in the target fragmentation region employing the Plastic Ball detector. Only...
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Transverse momentum distributions of neutral pions from central and peripheral16O+Au collisions at 200A·GeV
The production of neutral pions by the interaction of 200A·GeV p and16O projectiles with a Au target has been studied in the pseudorapidity range 1.5≦η≦2.1. Transverse momentum spectra have been measured between ...
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Global and local fluctuations in multiplicity and transverse energy for central ultra-relativistic heavy-ion interactions
We present results from a comparison between experimental data and model calculations, in this case represented by the Fritiof model, regarding global and local fluctuations in the distributions of transverse ...
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Target fragmentation in proton-nucleus and16O-nucleus reactions at 60 and 200 GeV/nucleon
Target remnants withZ<3 from proton-nucleus and16O-nucleus reactions at 60 and 200 GeV/nucleon were measured in the angular range from 30° to 160° (−1.7<η<1.3) employing the Plastic Ball detector. The excitation ...
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Charged particle spectra in16O induced nuclear collisions at the CERN SPS
Charged particle multiplicity distributions and pseudo-rapidity density distributions from16O induced nuclear collisions at 200 and 60A GeV are presented. The data were taken, using a minimumbias trigger, with th...
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Oxygen-induced reactions at 60A GeV and 200A GeV studied by calorimetry
Results based on calorimetric measurements are presented from reactions of 60A GeV and 200A GeV16O projectiles with C, Cu, Ag, and Au nuclei. Minimum-bias cross sections are discussed. Energy spectra measured at ...
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Search for anomalous interaction mean free paths of charge, 2≦Z≦18 projectile fragments in emulsions exposed to 1.8 A GeV40Ar ions
40Ar-emulsion interactions are studied, to investigate the question of anomalons, in twoG- 5 emulsion stacks. In about 4600 primary interactions, projectile fragments of Z≧2 for all generations have been followe...
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Composition of particles emitted at largep T and medium angles inpp, dd, andαα collisions at the CERN intersecting storage rings
The relative yields of kaons and protons compared with the yield of pions at highp T and polar angles θ away from 90° (in the range from 10° to 45°) are presented forpp, dd, an...
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High-p T αα andαp interactions
Properties of secondaries associated with a high-p T charged trigger particle (3<p T <5 GeV/c) were studied for αp and αα interactions at c.m...
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Many-particle rapidity correlations in light-ion interactions at the CERN intersecting storage rings
Many-particle rapidity correlations have been studied for αα,dd, andpp interactions at the CERN Intersecting Storage Rings using the Split-Field Magnet detector, and basing the investigating on the distributions ...
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Nuclear stop** power in αα anddd collisions
Inelasticαα anddd collisions were studied at a centre-of-mass energy √S NN=31.2 GeV per nucleon-nucleon collision, using the Split-Field Magnet (SFM) detector at the CERN ISR. In this paper we show the inclusive ...
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Evidence for directp p interactions in the fragmentation channelp +α →p + pX at √s=88 GeV
We have investigated kinematical correlations between the outgoing beam proton and the proton emerging from the fragmentingα-particle inpα collisions at ...
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Two-particle rapidity correlations in αα, αp, andp p interactions at the CERN intersecting storage rings
Two-particle rapidity correlations have been studied for αα, αp, andp p interactions at the CERN ISR using the Split-Field Magnet (SFM) detector. In order to isolate the true two-particle correlations, the analys...
