A. Gillitzer et al., SUBTHRESHOLD PRODUCTION OF ENERGETIC-PI(-) IN RELATIVISTIC NE+NAF ANDNI+NI COLLISIONS, ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PHYSIK A-HADRONS AND NUCLEI, 354(1), 1996, pp. 3-4
The production of energetic pi(-) at 0 degrees has been measured in Ne
+NaF and Ni+Ni collisions with incident energies between 1.3 and 2 AGe
V. In Ne+NaF collisions the investigation was extended to extreme subt
hreshold processes with lab momenta up to 4.5 GeV/c. In both systems a
t all incident energies the pi(-) production cross sections deviate in
a systematic way from thermal distributions.