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An investigation of the antinuclei and nuclei production mechanism in Pb + Pb collisions at 158 a GeV

  • R. Arsenescu
  • , C. Baglin
  • , H. P. Beck
  • , K. Borer
  • , A. Bussière
  • , K. Elsener
  • , Ph Gorodetzky
  • , J. P. Guillaud
  • , S. Kabana
  • , R. Klingenberg
  • , G. Lehmann
  • , T. Lindén
  • , K. D. Lohmann
  • , R. Mommsen
  • , U. Moser
  • , K. Pretzl
  • , J. Schacher
  • , R. Spiwoks
  • , J. Tuominiemi
  • , M. Weber
  • University of Bern
  • Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)
  • CERN
  • Collège de France
  • TU Dortmund University
  • University of Helsinki
  • University of California at Irvine
  • Fermilab

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Abstract

We investigate the production mechanisms of p, d, t, 3He, 4He, 6Li, p, d and 3He in Pb + Pb collisions at 158 A GeV measured near zero transverse momentum with the NA52 experiment at the CERN SPS. We find evidence that nuclei and antinuclei in Pb + Pb collisions are mainly produced via the coalescence mechanism out of a thermalized source of hadrons, at a time close to the thermal freeze-out of hadrons corresponding to a temperature of∼120 MeV.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)150.1-150.3
JournalNew Journal of Physics
Volume5
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Nov 2003
Externally publishedYes

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