F. Antinori et al., Transverse mass spectra of strange and multi-strange particles in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c, EUR PHY J C, 14(4), 2000, pp. 633-641
The WA97 experiment has measured the transverse mass (m(T)) spectra for neg
ative hadrons (h(-)) and strange particles produced at mid-rapidity in Pb-P
b collisions. The increased statistics of analysed data samples allowed us
to perform a study of the spectra of K-S(0), Lambda, Xi, Omega and h(-) as
a function of the collision centrality. The data, which correspond to the m
ost central 40% of the total inelastic cross section? have been divided int
o four centrality classes according to the estimated number of nucleons tak
ing part in the collision. The mT spectra, analysed separately for each cen
trality bin, exhibit only weak (less than or equal to 15%) centrality depen
dence. The deviation of the Omega inverse slope from the linear dependence
on the particle mass is confirmed even for the most central Pb-Pb collision
s.