151. $\Sigma^0$ production in proton nucleus collisions near threshold
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Adamczewski-Musch, J., Agakishiev, G., Arnold, O., Atomssa, E.T., Behnke, C., Berger-Chen, J.C., Biernat, J., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chernenko, S., Deveaux, C., Dybczak, A., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J.A., Gernhäuser, R., Gill, K., Golubeva, M., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., Jurkovic, M., Kämpfer, B., Karavicheva, T., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kolb, B.W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Krása, A., Krebs, E., Kuc, H., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Maurus, S., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Metag, V., Michel, J., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Naumann, L., Palka, M., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petousis, V., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Rehnisch, L., Reshetin, A., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schmidt-Sommerfeld, K., Schuldes, H., Sellheim, P., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Sobolev, Yu.G., Spataro, S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Strzempek, P., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Tarantola, A., Teilab, K., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Vasiliev, T., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wirth, J., Wüstenfeld, J., Zanevsky, Y., Zumbruch, P., Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), HADES, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay ( IPNO ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
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momentum spectrum ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Hyperons ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,nuclear reaction ,Sigma0: production ,Nucleus ,phase space ,transport theory ,[ PHYS.NEXP ] Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Nuclear Experiment ,p nucleus: scattering ,3.18 GeV-cms/nucleon ,particle: model ,Strangeness ,model: statistical ,baryon ,Automatic Keywords ,rapidity ,HADES ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,p nucleus ,Proton ,inclusive production ,experimental results ,acceptance - Abstract
The production of $\Sigma^{0}$ baryons in the nuclear reaction p (3.5 GeV) + Nb (corresponding to $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=3.18$ GeV) is studied with the detector set-up HADES at GSI, Darmstadt. $\Sigma^{0}$s were identified via the decay $\Sigma^{0} \rightarrow \Lambda \gamma$ with subsequent decays $\Lambda \rightarrow p \pi^{-}$ in coincidence with a $e^{+}e^{-}$ pair from either external ($\gamma \rightarrow e^{+} e^{-}$) or internal (Dalitz decay $\gamma^{*}\rightarrow e^{+} e^{-}$) gamma conversions. The differential $\Sigma^0$ cross section integrated over the detector acceptance, i.e. the rapidity interval $0.5 < y < 1.1$, has been extracted as $\Delta\sigma_{\Sigma^{0}} = 2.3 \pm (0.2)^{stat} \pm \left(^{+0.6}_{-0.6}\right)^{sys} \pm (0.2)^{norm}$ mb, yielding the inclusive production cross section in full phase space $\sigma^{total}_{\Sigma^{0}} = 5.8 \pm (0.5)^{stat} \pm \left(^{+1.4}_{-1.4}\right)^{sys} \pm (0.6)^{norm} \pm (1.7)^{extrapol}$ mb by averaging over different extrapolation methods. The $\Lambda_{all}$/$\Sigma^{0}$ ratio within the HADES acceptance is equal to 2.3 $\pm$ $(0.2)^{stat}$ $\pm$ $(^{+0.6}_{-0.6})^{sys}$. The obtained rapidity and momentum distributions are compared to transport model calculations. The $\Sigma^{0}$ yield agrees with the statistical model of particle production in nuclear reactions., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures
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- 2018
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