SEARCH FOR STRANGE QUARK MATTER IN HIGH-ENERGY HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS

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作者
BARRETTE, J
BELLWIED, R
BRAUNMUNZINGER, P
CLELAND, WE
DAVID, G
DUEK, E
FATYGA, M
FOX, D
GREENE, SV
HALL, JR
HEIFETZ, R
HEMMICK, TK
HERRMANN, N
HOGUE, RW
INGOLD, G
JAYANANDA, K
KRAUS, D
LEGAULT, A
LISSAUER, D
LLOPE, WJ
LUDLAM, T
MAJKA, RD
MAKOWIECKI, D
MARK, SK
MITCHELL, JT
MUTHUSWAMY, M
OBRIEN, E
OLSEN, L
POLYCHRONAKOS, V
RAWOOLSULLIVAN, M
ROTONDO, FS
SANDWEISS, J
SHIVAKUMAR, B
SIMON, J
SLAUGHTER, AJ
SONNADARA, U
STACHEL, J
SULLIVAN, J
SUNIER, J
TAKAI, H
THROWE, T
VANHECKE, H
WATERS, L
WOLF, K
WOLFE, D
WOODY, C
机构
[1] SUNY STONY BROOK,STONY BROOK,NY 11794
[2] UNIV PITTSBURGH,PITTSBURGH,PA 15260
[3] BROOKHAVEN NATL LAB,UPTON,NY 11973
[4] UNIV CALIF LOS ALAMOS SCI LAB,LOS ALAMOS,NM 87545
[5] YALE UNIV,NEW HAVEN,CT 06511
[6] UNIV NEW MEXICO,ALBUQUERQUE,NM 87131
[7] TEL AVIV UNIV,IL-69978 TEL AVIV,ISRAEL
[8] TEXAS A&M UNIV SYST,COLLEGE STN,TX 77843
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)90481-K
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We have initiated a search for strange quark matter in the products of 14.6 GeV/c per nucleon Si-28 collisions with nuclei, utilizing the apparatus of E-814 at Brookhaven National Laboratory's AGS. We report the first results of this search, which is sensitive to particles with charge-to-mass ratios between 0.1 and 0.3 (GeV/c2)-1 that are produced within approximately +/- 0.5 units of the center of mass rapidity.
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