STRANGELET SEARCH AND LIGHT NUCLEUS PRODUCTION IN RELATIVISTIC SI+PT AND AU+PT COLLISIONS

Authors
RUSEK A BASSALLECK B BERDOZ A BURGER T BURGER M CHRIEN RE DIEBOLD GE ENYO H FISCHER H FRANKLIN GB FRANZ J IIJIMA T IMAI K LOWE J MAGAHIZ R MASAIKE A MEYER CA MCCRADY R MERRILL F MIHARA S NELSON JM OKADA K PILE PH QUINN B ROSSLE E SAITO N SAWAFTA R SCHMITT H SCHUMACHER RA STEARNS RL STOTZER R SUKATON R SUTTER R TAKEUTCHI F WOLFE DM YAMAMOTO K YAMASHITA S YOKKAICHI S ZEPS V ZYBERT R
Citation
A. Rusek et al., STRANGELET SEARCH AND LIGHT NUCLEUS PRODUCTION IN RELATIVISTIC SI+PT AND AU+PT COLLISIONS, Physical review. C. Nuclear physics, 54(1), 1996, pp. 15-19
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Physical review. C. Nuclear physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
05562813
Volume
54
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
15 - 19
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2813(1996)54:1<15:SSALNP>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
A strangelet search in Si+Pt and Au+Pt collisions at alternating-gradi ent synchrotron (AGS) energies, using a focusing spectrometer, sensiti ve to mass per charge of 3-14 GeV/c(2) was conducted during the 1992 a nd 1993 heavy ion runs at the AGS. The null results thereof are presen ted as upper limits on the invariant production cross section, in the range of 10(-5)-10(-4) mb c(3)/GeV2, and model dependent sensitivity l imits in the range of 10(-7)-10(-5) per collision. Measurements of the production cross sections of several nonstrange nuclear systems, from p to Be-7 and Li-8, the background of the strangelet search, are also presented.