First results from the NA60 experiment at CERN

Since 1986, several heavy ion experiments have studied some signatures of the formation of the quark-gluon plasma and a few exciting results have been found. However, some important questions are still unanswered and require new measurements. The NA60 experiment, with a new detector concept that vas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Usai, Gianluca, Arnaldi, R., Banicz, K., Borer, K., Buytaert, J., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., Chen, W., Cheynis, B., Cicalo, C., Colla, A., Cortese, P., David, Andre, Devaux, A., Drees, A., Ducroux, L., Enyo, H., de Falco, A., Ferretti, A., Floris, M., Force, P., Grigorian, A., Grossiord, J.Y., Guettet, N., Guichard, A., Gulkanian, H., Heuser, J., Keil, M., Kluberg, L., Li, Z., Lourenco, C., Lozano, J., Manso, F., de Marco, N., Masoni, A., Neves, A., Ohnishi, H., Oppedisano, C., Puddu, G., Radermacher, E., Rosinsky, P., Scomparin, E., Seixas, J., Serci, S., Shahoyan, R., Sonderegger, P., Vardanyan, H., Woehri, H.K.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2003
Materias:
Particle Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/631150
Descripción
Sumario:Since 1986, several heavy ion experiments have studied some signatures of the formation of the quark-gluon plasma and a few exciting results have been found. However, some important questions are still unanswered and require new measurements. The NA60 experiment, with a new detector concept that vastly improves dimuon detection in proton-nucleus and heavy-ion collisions, studies several of those open questions, including the production of open charm. This paper presents the experiment and some first results from data collected in 2002.

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