Results on cascade production in lead-lead interactions from the NA57 experiment
Abstract
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The NA57 experiment has been designed to study the production of strange and multi-strange particles in Pb-Pb and p-Be collisions at the CERN SPS. The predecessor experiment WA97 has measured an enhanced abundance of strange particles in Pb-Pb collisions relative to p-A reactions at 160 GeV/c per nucleon beam momentum. NA57 has extended the WA97 measurements to investigate the evolution of the strangeness enhancement pattern as a function of the beam energy and over a wider centrality range. In this paper, we report results on cascade production for about the 60% most central collisions at 160 GeV/c per nucleon.
4 pages, 5 figures Contribution to the XXXVIth Rencontres de Moriond - "QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions" - Les Arcs (Fr), March 17-24, 2001
4 pages, 5 figures Contribution to the XXXVIth Rencontres de Moriond - "QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions" - Les Arcs (Fr), March 17-24, 2001