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Charm and intermediate mass dimuons in In-In collisions

  • R. Shahoyan
  • , R. Arnaldi
  • , R. Averbeck
  • , K. Banicz
  • , J. Castor
  • , B. Chaurand
  • , C. Cicalò
  • , A. Colla
  • , P. Cortese
  • , S. Damjanovic
  • , A. David
  • , A. De Falco
  • , A. Devaux
  • , A. Drees
  • , L. Ducroux
  • , H. En'yo
  • , A. Ferretti
  • , M. Floris
  • , P. Force
  • , N. Guettet
  • A. Guichard, H. Gulkanian, J. Heuser, M. Keil, L. Kluberg, C. Lourenço, J. Lozano, F. Manso, A. Masoni, P. Martins, A. Neves, H. Ohnishi, C. Oppedisano, P. Parracho, P. Pillot, G. Puddu, E. Radermacher, P. Ramalhete, P. Rosinsky, E. Scomparin, J. Seixas, S. Serci, P. Sonderegger, H. J. Specht, R. Tieulent, G. Usai, R. Veenhof, H. K. Wöhri
  • University of Lisbon
  • University of Turin
  • Stony Brook University
  • CERN
  • Heidelberg University 
  • Université Blaise Pascal
  • CNRS-IN2P3
  • University of Cagliari
  • Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • RIKEN
  • A. Alikhanian Yerevan Institute of Physics

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Abstract

We present preliminary results on the production of intermediate mass dimuons in 158 AṡGeV In-In collisions at the CERN SPS. NA38 and NA50 observed a strong excess in this region in S-U and Pb-Pb interactions with respect to the dimuon production rate expected from p-A data. Thanks to the use of a pixel vertex telescope, NA60 can separate the prompt dimuons from the pairs resulting from open charm decays and show that the excess dimuons are of prompt origin.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)677-680
Number of pages4
JournalNuclear Physics, Section A
Volume774
Issue number1-4
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 7 2006

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