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System-size dependence of Λ and Ξ production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at 40A and 158A GeV measured at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

  • T. Anticic
  • , B. Baatar
  • , D. Barna
  • , J. Bartke
  • , H. Beck
  • , L. Betev
  • , H. Białkowska
  • , C. Blume
  • , B. Boimska
  • , J. Book
  • , M. Botje
  • , J. Bracinik
  • , P. Bunčić
  • , V. Cerny
  • , P. Christakoglou
  • , P. Chung
  • , O. Chvala
  • , J. G. Cramer
  • , P. Csató
  • , P. Dinkelaker
  • V. Eckardt, Z. Fodor, P. Foka, V. Friese, J. Gál, M. Gaździcki, V. Genchev, K. Grebieszkow, S. Hegyi, C. Höhne, K. Kadija, A. Karev, D. Kresan, V. I. Kolesnikov, M. Kowalski, I. Kraus, M. Kreps, A. Laszlo, R. Lacey, M. Van Leeuwen, P. Lévai, L. Litov, B. Lungwitz, M. Makariev, A. I. Malakhov, M. Mateev, G. L. Melkumov, C. Meurer, A. Mischke, M. Mitrovski, J. Molnár, St Mrówczyński, V. Nicolic, G. Pálla, A. D. Panagiotou, D. Panayotov, A. Petridis, W. Peryt, M. Pikna, J. Pluta, D. Prindle, F. Pühlhofer, R. Renfordt, C. Roland, G. Roland, M. Rybczyński, A. Rybicki, A. Sandoval, N. Schmitz, T. Schuster, P. Seyboth, F. Siklér, B. Sitar, E. Skrzypczak, M. Slodkowski, G. Stefanek, R. Stock, C. Strabel, H. Ströbele, T. Susa, I. Szentpétery, J. Sziklai, M. Szuba, P. Szymanski, M. Utvić, D. Varga, M. Vassiliou, G. I. Veres, G. Vesztergombi, D. Vranić, Z. Włodarczyk, A. Wojtaszek, I. K. Yoo
  • Ruder Boskovic Institute
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Wigner Research Centre for Physics
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • CERN
  • Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warsaw
  • National Institute for Subatomic Physics
  • Comenius University
  • Stony Brook University
  • Charles University
  • University of Washington
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
  • Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Warsaw University of Technology
  • Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • University of Marburg
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • University of Warsaw
  • Pusan National University

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Abstract

Results on Λ, Λ̄, and Ξ- production in centrality selected Pb+Pb reactions at 40A and 158A GeV and in near-central C+C and Si+Si reactions at 158A GeV are presented. Transverse mass spectra, rapidity spectra, and multiplicities in dependence of the system size are discussed. Comparisons to transport models (ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics and hadron string dynamics) and to the core-corona approach are performed. Although Λ and Λ̄ production can be described by transport models reasonably well, these models do not agree with the Ξ- measurements. However, the core-corona picture fits very well the system-size dependence of Λ and Ξ-, whereas it agrees less well with the Λ̄ data.

Original languageEnglish
Article number034906
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume80
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 21 2009

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