System size dependence of strangeness production at 158 AGeV

Strange particle production in A+A interactions at 158 AGeV is studied by the CERN experiment NA49 as a function of system size and collision geometry. Yields of charged kaons, $\phi$ and $\Lambda$ are measured and compared to those of pions in central C+C, Si+Si and centrality-selected Pb+Pb reacti...

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Autores principales: Hohne, C., Afanasiev, S.V., Anticic, T., Baatar, B., Barna, D., Bartke, J., Barton, R.A., Behler, M., Betev, L., Bialkowska, H., Billmeier, A., Blume, C., Blyth, C.O., Boimska, B., Botje, M., Bracinik, J., Bramm, R., Brun, R., Buncic, P., Cerny, V., Chvala, O., Cramer, J.G., Csato, P., Dinkelaker, P., Eckardt, V., Filip, P., Fischer, H.G., Fodor, Z., Foka, P., Freund, P., Friese, V., Gal, J., Gazdzicki, M., Georgopoulos, G., Gladysz, E., Hegyi, S., Igo, G., Jones, P.G., Kadija, K., Karev, A., Kolesnikov, V.I., Kollegger, T., Kowalski, M., Kraus, I., Kreps, M., van Leeuwen, M., Levai, P., Malakhov, A.I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Mayes, B.W., Melkumov, G.L., Meurer, C., Mischke, A., Mitrovski, M., Molnar, J., Nelson, John M., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A.D., Perl, K., Petridis, A., Pikna, M., Pinsky, Lawrence S., Puhlhofer, F., Reid, J.G., Renfordt, R., Retyk, W., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rybicki, A., Sammer, T., Sandoval, A., Sann, H., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Sikler, F., Sitar, B., Skrzypczak, E., Squier, G.T.A., Stock, R., Strobele, H., Susa, T., Szentpetery, I., Sziklai, J., Trainor, T.A., Varga, D., Vassiliou, M., Veres, G.I., Vesztergombi, G., Vranic, D., Wenig, S., Wetzler, A., Whitten, C., Yoo, I.K., Zaranek, J., Zimanyi, J.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2002
Materias:
Nuclear Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9474(02)01453-7
http://cds.cern.ch/record/582729
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Sumario:Strange particle production in A+A interactions at 158 AGeV is studied by the CERN experiment NA49 as a function of system size and collision geometry. Yields of charged kaons, $\phi$ and $\Lambda$ are measured and compared to those of pions in central C+C, Si+Si and centrality-selected Pb+Pb reactions. An overall increase of relative strangeness production with the size of the system is observed which does not scale with the number of participants. Arguing that rescattering of secondaries plays a minor role in small systems the observed strangeness enhancement can be related to the space-time density of the primary nucleon-nucleon collisions.

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