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The high-acceptance dielectron spectrometer HADES
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Measurement of charged pions in 12C + 12C collisions at 1 A GeV and 2 A GeV with HADES
We present the results of a study of charged-pion production in 12C + 12C collisions at incident beam energies of 1A GeV and 2A GeV using the HADES spectrometer at GSI. The main emphasis of the HADES program is o...
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Beta decay of 50Ni
The very neutron-deficient isotope 50Ni was produced in fragmentation reactions between a \(650\cdot\) A MeV 58Ni beam and a 9Be target. For the first time the decay of this nucl...
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First evidence for the two-proton decay of 45Fe
Decays of five 45Fe atoms have been observed at the fragment separator of GSI. Whereas one event is consistent with the β-decay of 45Fe accompanied by the emission of a 10 MeV proton, four decays are consistent w...
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Observation of Δ+→ pπ0 decay in heavy-ion collisions
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Systematic study of low-mass electron pair production in p–Be and p–Au collisions at 450 GeV/ \(c\)
In a joint effort the CERES/NA45 and TAPS collaborations have measured low-mass electron pairs in p–Be and p–Au collisions at 450 GeV/ \(c\) at the CERN SPS. In the range covere...
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Neutral meson production in p-Be and p-Au collisions at 450 GeV beam energy
In a joint experiment the TAPS and CERES collaborations have studied the production of the neutral mesons \(\pi^\circ,\eta\) and \(\omega\) i...
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The study of neutral pion azimuthal distribution in 58Ni+58Ni reaction at 2 GeV/nucleon
In order to study the anisotropic azimuthal emission of mesons in heavy ion collisions we measured the neutral pions emitted in the Ni+Ni collisions at 2 GeV/u with respect to the reaction plane. We studied th...
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Observation of antihydrogen production in flight at CERN
The observation of the production of antihydrogen atoms \overlineH 0\equiv\barpe+, the simplest atomic bound state of antimatter, is presented.
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Mass and Γ3π0/Γγγ decay branching ratio of theη-meson from the p(γ, η)p reaction
Near threshold photoproduction ofη-mesons from the proton has been measured at the MAMI accelerator with the TAPS spectrometer. The mass of theη-meson was deduced from the threshold energy forη-photoproduction. T...
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Neutron emission from Bi+Pb collisions at 1 GeV/u
The experimental study of the neutron emission from Bi+Pb collisions at 1 GeV/u was done using BaF2 detector. The heavy-ion collision dynamics was investigated through genuine collective phenomena: nuclear flow e...
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Evidence for a two-phonon octupole vibrational state in208Pb
Collective properties of206,208Pb have been investigated with gamma-ray spectroscopy using nuclear and electromagnetic excitation by208Pb projectiles. From the measurement of particle-particle-γ and particle-part...
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Total decay-energy measurement in the fusion reactions90Zr(89Y,p)178Pt and90Zr(89Y, α)175Ir
In the fusion reactions90Zr(89Y,p)178Pt and90Zr(89Y,α)175Ir the sum energy of all emittedγ rays as well as the energy of the promptly emitted charged particle were measured. From these data the mass-excess values...
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β +-endpoint measurements near100Sn and146Gd
With a summation-free β+-endpoint spectrometer the β+-decay energies of104Sn,147Tb,148, 149Dy,149Ho,150Er, and151Tm were remeasured with improved accuracy. Combined with known proton and alpha decay energies, the...
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Neutral meson production in relativistic heavy ion collisions
The production ofπ 0 andη mesons has been studied in the reactions20Ne +Al at 350 MeV/u and40Ar + Ca at 1.0 GeV/u. Rapidity distributions and transverse momentum spectra have been measured and are compared to the...
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Large electron polarization of H-like20Ne-ions traversing gd foils at very high velocities
It is shown that transient magnetic fields in Gd-host for20Ne ions at a mean velocity of 12.5v0(v0=c/137), considerably beyond the Bohr velocity of 1s electrons of Ne ions (v1s=10v0), are dominated by the Fermi c...
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Decay of the compound nucleus179Au formed in the cold fusion reaction90Zr+89Y
For the compound nucleus179Au formed at an excitation energy of 26 MeV in the fusion reaction90Zr+89Y, the energy spectra of promptly emitted protons,α particles andγ rays were measured in concidence with the eva...
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Measurement ofg-factors in160Yb by aγ-γ coincidence technique
Aγ-γ coincidence technique has been developed forg-factor measurements of short-lived nuclear states. The method involvesγ-detection in 4π geometry as well as transient magnetic fields and the recoil-distance tec...
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Neutral pion production at 350 MeV/u in the system20Ne +27Al
π0 -production probability of (9± 2)· 10− 3 per20Ne+Al reaction has been measured at 350 MeV/u using the Two Arm Photon Spectrometer TAPS. This yield is consistent with an interpolation of published π-production ...
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Measurements of transient magnetic fields on single-electron Ni-ions
Measurements were performed to determine the transient magnetic field assoclated with polarized is electrons of highly-stripped Ni ions traversing a ferromagnetic Fe layer. Partiele γ angular correlations and ...