The NA52 strangelet search

Authors
Arsenescu, R Baglin, C Beck, HP Borer, K Bussiere, A Elsener, K Gorodetzky, P Guillaud, JP Kabana, S Klingenberg, R Lehmann, G Linden, T Lohmann, KD Mommsen, R Moser, U Pretzl, K Schacher, J Spiwoks, R Tuominiemi, J Weber, M
Citation
R. Arsenescu et al., The NA52 strangelet search, J PHYS G-NU, 27(3), 2001, pp. 487-493
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
ISSN journal
09543899 → ACNP
Volume
27
Issue
3
Year of publication
2001
Pages
487 - 493
Database
ISI
SICI code
0954-3899(200103)27:3<487:TNSS>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
The NA52 experiment searches for long-lived charged strangelets in 158 A Ge V c(-1) Pb + Pb collisions at CERN SPS. The experiment is able to identify single particles coming from the collisions at p(t) = 0. We collected 10(13 ) Pb + Pb interactions looking for negatively charged strangelets and 3 x 1 0(11) Pb + Pb interactions for positively charged ones. No evidence for the production of strangelets has been observed. We present here resulting exp erimental differential and total upper production limits.