1. Event-by-event charged–neutral fluctuations in Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A GeV
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W. Pinanaud, I. Roufanov, S. Vörös, Mikhail Ippolitov, Sudhir Raniwala, J. M. Rubio, B.N. Gus'kov, A. Kugler, D. P. Mahapatra, Krzysztof Karpio, D. Y.-U. Peressounko, S. Nikolaev, Jan Rak, Klaus Johannes Reygers, G.S. Shabratova, A.L.S. Angelis, D. Bucher, I. Hrivnacova, T.K. Ghosh, K. Söderström, G. Martínez, A. A. Tsvetkov, C. Blume, V. Petracek, Teodor Siemiarczuk, Bolek Wyslouch, P. Donni, Vladislav Manko, K. Enosawa, O. P. Gavrishchuk, S. P. Sorensen, M. R. Dutta Majumdar, H. Delagrange, V. Astakhov, Peter M. Nilsson, M. L. Purschke, V. Arefiev, T. C. Awes, S. Bathe, A.S. Vodopianov, G. Sood, Zubayer Ahammed, Michal Sumbera, R. Santo, S. K. Badyal, S. Pavliouk, D. S. Mukhopadhyay, L. Tykarski, T. K. Nayak, Bikash Sinha, H. Kalechofsky, Bedangadas Mohanty, R. Glasow, F. J M Geurts, A.L. Lebedev, K. Karadjev, T. H. Shah, H. Naef, A. Nianine, Sergey Fokin, V.G. Antonenko, V. S. Bhatia, Susumu Sato, D. P. Morrison, G. R. Young, Hans Rudolf Schmidt, Y. P. Viyogi, I. Sibiriak, R. Kamermans, L. Luquin, G. Stefanek, S. Garpman, T. Bernier, H. A. Gustafsson, S. K. Nayak, Sanjeev Singh Sambyal, H. Schlagheck, Ramni Gupta, I. Kosarev, I. Koutcheryaev, P.V.K.S. Baba, Sukalyan Chattopadhyay, S. Nishimura, Vladimir Frolov, M. S. Ganti, K. B. Bhalla, M. J. Mora, Lars Carlén, Petr Nomokonov, Rashmi Raniwala, Hengchang Liu, I. Otterlund, N. K. Rao, F. Plasil, H. Büsching, B. K. Nandi, E. Stenlund, A. Oskarsson, P. Kulinich, Nikolai V Slavine, David Olle Rickard Silvermyr, T. Peitzmann, A. A. Vinogradov, F. Retiere, B. Batiounia, C. Roy, T. V. Moukhanova, Y. Schutz, L. Rosselet, V. Nikitine, T. Svensson, H. H. Gutbrod, Gunther Roland, P. Steinberg, J. Nystrand, Anand Kumar Dubey, P. W. Stankus, G.J.v. Nieuwenhuizen, Herbert Löhner, Yasuo Miake, M. P. Decowski, MV Manzano Martin, A. Maximov, Madan M. Aggarwal, B. W. Kolb, K. El Chenawi, N. v. Eijndhoven, V. Avdeitchikov, E. C. v. d. Pijll, M. Kurata, and G. C. Mishra
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,biology ,Meson ,Hadron ,Elementary particle ,Venus ,biology.organism_classification ,Charged particle ,Nuclear physics ,Massless particle ,Pion ,Nuclear Experiment ,Event (particle physics) - Abstract
Charged particles and photons have been measured in central Pb + Pb collisions at 158 A GeV in a common (eta-phi)-phase space region in the WA98 experiment at the CERN SPS. The measured distributions have been analyzed to quantify the frequency with which phase space regions of varying sizes have either small or large neutral pion fraction. The measured results are compared with VENUS model simulated events and with mixed events. Events with both large and small charged-neutral fluctuations are observed to occur more frequently than expected statistically, as deduced from mixed events, or as predicted by model simulations, with the difference becoming more prominent with decreasing size of the A Delta eta-Delta phi region. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- 2011