Study of dimuon production in Indium-Indium collisions with the NA60 experiment

Shahoyan, R.; Arnaldi, R.; Banicz, K.; Castor, J.; Chaurand, B.; Cicalo, C.; Colla, A.; Cortese, P.; Damjanovic, S.; David, A.; de Falco, A.; Devaux, A.; Ducroux, L.; En'yo, H.; Ferretti, A.; Floris, M.; Force, P.; Guettet, N.; Guichard, A.; Gulkanian, H.; Heuser, J.; Keil, M.; Kluberg, L.; Lozano, J.; Lourenco, C.; Manso, F.; Masoni, A.; Martins, P.; Neves, A.; Ohnishi, H.; Oppedisano, C.; Parracho, P.; Pillot, P.; Puddu, G.; Radermacher, E.; Ramalhete, P.; Rosinsky, P.; Scomparin, E.; Seixas, J.; Serci, S.; Sonderegger, P.; Specht, H. J.; Tieulent, R.; Usai, G.; Veenhof, R.; Woehri, H. K.

Study of dimuon production in Indium-Indium collisions with the NA60 experiment

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The NA60 experiment at the CERN-SPS is devoted to the study of dimuon production in heavy-ion and proton-nucleus collisions. We present preliminary results from the analysis of Indium-Indium collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon. The topics covered are low mass vector meson production, J/psi production and suppression, and the feasibility of the open charm measurement from the dimuon continuum in the mass range below the J/psi peak.
Contribution at XXXXth Rencontres de Moriond, "QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions"