Experiment NA57 at the CERN SPS

199927 citationsJournal Article

Authors

V. Manzari · Instituto Politécnico Nacional

F. Antinori · University of Padua

A. Badalà · University of Catania

R. Barbera · University of Catania

H. Beker · European Organization for Nuclear Research

I.J. Bloodworth · University of Birmingham

J. Böhm

Abstract

Experiment NA57 studies the production of strange and multi-strange baryons and antibaryons in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at the SPS. The principal aim of NA57 is to investigate the existence of an onset for the strangeness enhancement effect at the variation of the energy and centrality (i.e. number of participants) of the nucleus-nucleus collisions. The experiment was successfully installed and commissioned in 1997.

Topics & Keywords

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and clean energy

Publication Details

Published in: CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Bari Aldo Moro)

Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 473-479

DOI: 10.1088/0954-3899/25/2/037

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