Reconstruction over a large rapidity interval of Lambda, (Lambda)over-bar and K-S(0) in the NA49 experiment

Authors
Barnby, LS Appelshauser, H Bachler, J Bailey, SJ Barna, D Barnby, LS Bartke, J Barton, RA Bialkowska, H Billmeier, A Blyth, CO Bock, R Bormann, C Brady, FP Brockmann, R Brun, R Buncic, P Caines, HL Carr, LD Cebra, D Cooper, GE Cramer, JG Cristinziani, M Csato, P Dunn, J Eckardt, V Eckhardt, F Ferguson, MI Fischer, HG Flierl, D Fodor, Z Foka, P Freund, P Friese, V Fuchs, M Gabler, F Gal, J Gazdzicki, M Gladysz, E Grebieszkow, J Gunther, J Harris, JW Hegyi, S Henkel, T Hill, LA Huang, I Hummler, H Igo, G Irmscher, D Jacobs, P Jones, PG Kadija, K Kolesnikov, VI Kowalski, M Lasiuk, B Levai, P Malakhov, AI Margetis, S Markert, C Melkumov, GL Mock, A Molnar, J Nelson, JM Oldenburg, M Odyniec, G Palla, G Panagiotou, AD Petridis, A Piper, A Porter, RJ Poskanzer, AM Poziombka, S Prindle, DJ Puhlhofer, F Rauch, W Reid, JG Renfordt, R Retyk, W Ritter, HG Rohrich, D Roland, C Roland, G Rudolph, H Rybicki, A Sandoval, A Sann, H Semenov, AY Schafer, E Schmischke, D Schmitz, N Schonfelder, S Seyboth, P Seyerlein, J Sikler, F Skrzypczak, E Squier, GTA Stock, R Strobele, H Struck, C Szentpetery, I Sziklai, J Toy, M Trainor, TA Trentalange, S Ullrich, T Vassiliou, M Veres, G Vesztergombi, G Vranic, D Wang, F Weerasundara, DD Wenig, S Whitten, C Wienold, T Wood, L Yates, TA Zimanyi, J Zhu, XZ Zybert, R
Citation
Ls. Barnby et al., Reconstruction over a large rapidity interval of Lambda, (Lambda)over-bar and K-S(0) in the NA49 experiment, J PHYS G-NU, 25(2), 1999, pp. 469-472
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
ISSN journal
09543899 → ACNP
Volume
25
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
469 - 472
Database
ISI
SICI code
0954-3899(199902)25:2<469:ROALRI>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
The NA49 experiment is able to measure the production of neutral strange ba ryons and mesons along with other hadronic species in Pb + Pb collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon. These strange particles are an important piece of evi dence in the search for the quark-gluon plasma. They have been reconstructe d from their charged decay products recorded in the experiment's time proje ction chambers. A new round of data production has been undertaken with imp roved software, allowing the reconstruction of neutral strange particles ov er a rapidity interval covering both sides of mid-rapidity. The procedures used to obtain this sample are outlined and a comparison of the phase space coverage with respect to previous measurements is made.