Study of the production of strange and multi-strange particles in lead-lead interactions at the CERN SPS: the NA57 experiment

Authors
Virgili, T Antinori, F Badala, A Barbera, R Bloodworth, IJ Botje, M Caliandro, R Campbell, M Cantatore, E Carena, W Carrer, N de Haas, AP Di Bari, D Di Liberto, S Divia, R Elia, D Evans, D Fanebust, K Fedorisin, J Feofilov, GA Fini, RA Ftacnik, J Ghidini, B Grella, G Gulino, M Helstrup, H Holme, AK Jacholkowski, A Jones, GT Jovanovic, P Jusko, A Kamermans, R Kinson, JB Klempt, W Knudson, K Kocper, B Kolojvari, AA Kralik, I Kuijer, P Lenti, V Lietava, R Lovhoiden, G Luptak, M Manzari, V Mazzoni, MA Martinska, G Meddi, F Michalon, A Michalon-Mentzer, ME Morando, M Muigg, D Nappi, E Navach, F Norman, PI Palmeri, A Pappalardo, GS Pastirecak, B Pisut, J Pisutova, N Posa, F Quercigh, E Riggi, F Rohrich, D Romano, G Safarik, K Sandor, L Schillings, E Sene, M Sene, R Segato, G Snoeys, W Staroba, P Thompson, M Tomasicchio, G Torrieri, GD Tulina, TA Tveter, TS Urban, J Valiev, F van den Brink, A van de Ven, P Vande Vyvre, P van Eijndhoven, N Vannucci, L Vascotto, A Baillie, OV Vinogradov, I Virgili, T Votruba, MF Vrlakova, J Zavada, P
Citation
T. Virgili et al., Study of the production of strange and multi-strange particles in lead-lead interactions at the CERN SPS: the NA57 experiment, NUCL PHYS A, 681, 2001, pp. 165C-173C
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
NUCLEAR PHYSICS A
ISSN journal
03759474 → ACNP
Volume
681
Year of publication
2001
Pages
165C - 173C
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9474(20010129)681:<165C:SOTPOS>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
The NA57 experiment studies the production of strange and multi-strange bar yons and antibaryons in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at the SPS. The main aim of NA57 is to investigate the behaviour of the enhancement of the production of particles with strangeness \s\=1,2,3 in nucleus-nucleus c ollisions at the variation of the energy and of the centrality of the colli sion defined e.g. as the number of participant nucleons. We shall recall the main features of the experimental set-up, and we shall illustrate the collected data samples and the status of their analysis.