We report a direct measurement of the final-state energy spectrum in the electromagnetic dissociation of {sup 28}Si into {ital p}+ {sup 27}Al at an energy of 14.6 GeV/nucleon. The final-state energy ...is obtained through a calculation of the {ital p}-{sup 27}Al invariant mass in kinematically reconstructed events. The final-state energy spectrum for all targets is peaked near the isovector giant-dipole resonance in {sup 28}Si and the dependence of the magnitude of the cross section on target charge confirms that the excitation is largely electromagnetic. By exploiting the expected scaling behavior on target {ital Z} and {ital A}, the background from nuclear interactions is evaluated and subtracted, leaving a pure electromagnetic dissociation final-state energy distribution. This distribution is well reproduced by simulated events, in which the photon spectrum calculated in the Weiszaecker-Williams approximation is combined with experimental data on the photonuclear reaction {sup 28}Si({gamma},{ital p}) {sup 27}Al, and slight differences are observed only at low final-state energy.
Phys.Lett. B485 (2000) 319-326 Directed flow of antiprotons is studied in Au+Au collisions at a beam
momentum of 11.5A GeV/c. It is shown that antiproton directed flow is
anti-correlated to proton ...flow. The measured transverse momentum dependence of
the antiproton flow is compared with predictions of the RQMD event generator.
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