E+ e- -pair production in Pb-Au collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon

European Physical Journal C

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 475-513

  Agakichiev, G ^a,k   Appelshauser H ^b,l   Bielcikova, J ^b,c,m   Baur, R ^b   Braun Munzinger, P ^a   Cherlin, A ^d   Damjanovic, S ^b,i   Drees, A ^e   Esumi, S ^b,n   Faschingbauer, U ^b,c   Fraenkel, Z ^d   Fuchs, Ch ^c   Gatti, E ^f   Glassel P ^b   Hering, G ^a   De Los Heros, C P ^d,o   Holl, P ^g,p   Jung, Ch ^b   Lenkeit, B ^b   Marin A ^a   Messer, F ^b,c   Messer, M ^b   Miskowiec D ^a   Nix, O ^c,q   Panebrattsev, Yu ^h   Pfeiffer, A ^b,i   Rak, J ^c,r   Ravinovich, I ^d   Razin, S ^h   Rehak, P ^g   Richter, M ^b   Sampietro, M ^f   Sako, H ^a,s   Saveljic, N ^b   Schmitz, W ^b   Schukraft, J ⁱ   Seipp, W ^b   Shimanskiy, S ^h   Socol, E ^d,t   Specht, H J ^b   Stachel, J ^b   Tel Zur, G ^d,u   Tserruya, I ^d   Ullrich, T ^b,g   Voigt, C ^b   Voloshin, S ^b,v   Weber, C ^b   Wessels, J P ^b,j   Wienold, T ^b   Wurm, J P ^c   Yurevich, V ^h   more..

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^g BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ CERN   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^k JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^l GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^m YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^o UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^p PNSENSOR GMBH   (Germany)

^q GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^r IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^t TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^u NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

^v WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 22044448319     PISSN: 14346044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2005-02272-3     Document Type: Article

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