Study of the transverse mass spectra of strange particles in Pb–Pb collisions at 158<i>A</i>GeV/<i>c</i>

The NA57 experiment has collected high statistics, high purity samples of \\PKzS and \\PgL, $\\Xi$ and $\\Omega$ 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.