Published May 1996 | Version v1
Journal article

Strangelet search in Pb-Pb interactions at 158 GeV/c per nucleon

  • 1. CNRS-IN2P3, CRN Strasbourg, F-67037 Strasbourg (France)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of Stockholm, P.O. Box 6730, S-11385 Stockholm (Sweden)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014 Helsinki (Finland)
  • 4. CNRS-IN2P3, LAPP Annecy, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux (France)
  • 5. CERN, SL Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
  • 6. Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern (Switzerland)

Description

The NA52 experiment searches for long-lived massive strange quark matter particles, so-called strangelets, produced in Pb-Pb collisions at a beam momentum of plab=158 AGeV/c. Upper limits for the production of strangelets at zero degree production angle covering a mass to charge ratio up to 120 GeV/c2 and lifetimes tlab approx-gt 1.2 μs are given. The data presented here were taken during the 1994 lead beam running period at CERN. copyright 1996 The American Physical Society

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
76
Journal Issue
21
Journal Page Range
p. 3907-3910.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO