1. Deuteron and triton production with high energy sulphur and lead beams
- Author
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L. Conin, D. Ferenc, K. Kaimi, A. Ljubicic, Y. Sumi, M. Potekhin, J. Simon-Gillo, S. Esumi, T. Kohama, B. V. Jacak, P. Hummel, J. Dodd, J. Schmidt-Sørensen, M. Leltchouk, G. Paić, W. E. Sondheim, C.W. Fabjan, A.G. Hansen, L. Martin, Olfred Hansen, B. Lörstad, A. Medvedev, Gilbert Poulard, Toru Sugitate, B. Erazmus, W.J. Willis, H. Bøggild, F. Piuz, Ian Gardner Bearden, K.L. Wolf, J.J. Gaardhøje, A. Franz, Hiroaki Ohnishi, Daniel S. Zachary, S.U. Pandey, M. Kopytine, P.H.L. Christiansen, A. Sakaguchi, H. W. Van Hecke, Venetios Polychronakos, Michael D. Murray, J. P. Sullivan, J. Pluta, J. G. Boissevain, Masashi Kaneta, Nu Xu, E. B. Holzer, D. Hardtke, D. Reichhold, T. J. Humanic, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), and Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Nuclear Theory ,Atomic ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Spectral line ,Nuclear physics ,Particle and Plasma Physics ,0103 physical sciences ,Homogeneity (physics) ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,Nuclear ,Rapidity ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,Physics ,Quantum Physics ,Large Hadron Collider ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Molecular ,Nuclear & Particles Physics ,Transverse plane ,Deuterium ,Transverse mass ,Atomic physics ,Nucleon - Abstract
Proton and deuteron production has been observed in S+S and S+Pb collisions at 200 A·GeV and in Pb+Pb reactions at 158 A·GeV at the CERN SPS accelerator. For Pb+Pb triton production was also measured. The p and d spectra as well as the p and t spectra were observed in similar rapidity ranges and over similar ranges of transverse momenta per nucleon, making it possible to interpret the cross sections of the composite particles in terms of coalescence mechanisms. Volumes of homogeneity were extracted and compared to pion-pair HBT interferometry results. Special attention is given to the dependence on transverse mass, centrality and rapidity.
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- 2002