Published June 1, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Study of the transverse mass spectra of strange particles in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c

  • 1. University of Padua and INFN, Padua (Italy)
  • 2. University of Birmingham, Birmingham (United Kingdom)
  • 3. University of Catania and INFN, Catania (Italy)

Description

The NA57 experiment has collected high statistics, high purity samples of K0S and Λ, Ξ and Ω hyperons produced in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c. In this paper we present a study of the transverse mass spectra of these particles for a sample of events corresponding to the most central 53% of the inelastic Pb-Pb cross-section. We analyse the transverse mass distributions in the framework of the blast-wave model for the full sample and, for the first time at the SPS, as a function of the event centrality

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0954-3899/30/823/g4_6_011.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics (ISSN 1361-6471) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
Journal Volume
30
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 823-840
ISSN
0954-3899
CODEN
JPGPED

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Collaborations
NA57 Collaboration