Enhanced production of low-mass electron-positron pairs in 40-AGeV Pb-Au collisions at the CERN SPS

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Adamova D ^a   Agakichiev, G ^b   Appelshauser H ^c   Belaga, V ^d   Braun Munzinger, P ^b   Cherlin, A ^e   Damjanovic S ^c   Dietel, T ^c   Dietrich, L ^c   Drees, A ^f   Esumi, S I ^c   Filimonov, K ^c   Fomenko, K ^d   Fraenkel, Z ^e   Garabatos, C ^b   Glassel P ^c   Hering, G ^b   Holeczek, J ^b   Kushpil, V ^a   Lenkeit, B ^g   Maas, A ^b   Marin A ^b   Milosevic J ^c   Milov, A ^e   Miskowiec D ^b   Panebrattsev, Yu ^d   Petchenova, O ^d   Petracek V ^c   Pfeiffer, A ^g   Rak, J ⁱ   Ravinovich, I ^e   Rehak, P ^h   Richter, M ^c   Sako, H ^b   Schmitz, W ^c   Sedykh, S ^b   Seipp, W ^c   Sharma, A ^b   Shimansky, S ^d   Slivova J ^c   Specht, H J ^c   Stachel, J ^c   Sumbera M ^a   Tilsner, H ^c   Tserruya, I ^e   Wessels, J P ^b   Wienold, T ^c   Windelband, B ^c   Wurm, J P ⁱ   Xie, W ^e   Yurevich, S ^c   Yurevich, V ^d   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^f STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g CERN   (Switzerland)

^h BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; TEMPERATURE;

CYLINDRICAL TIME PROJECTION CHAMBER; HARDRONS; HOUGH TRANFORMATION; MESONS; QUARK GLUON PLASMA; RING IMAGING CHERENKOV DETECTORS; SILICON DRIFT DETECTORS;

CHARGED PARTICLES;

EID: 4043151546     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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