We present the system size (centrality) dependence of the mean transverse mass, of the K/π ratio, and the width of the rapidity distributions. Except for the latter a steep increase with centrality ...is observed for small systems followed by a weak rise or even saturation for higher centralities at both energies. This behavior is compared to calculations using transport models (UrQMD and HSD), a percolation model and the core-corona approach.
Differential production cross sections of K+/- mesons have been measured in p + C and p + Au collisions at 1.6, 2.5, and 3.5 GeV proton beam energy. At beam energies close to the production ...threshold, the K- multiplicity is strongly enhanced with respect to proton-proton collisions. According to microscopic transport calculations, this enhancement is caused by two effects: the strangeness exchange reaction NY --> K- NN and an attractive in-medium K- N potential at saturation density.
In this contribution we shall discuss some aspects of the role of elementary reference data for the interpretation of the results from nuclear collisions and show in particular that neutron-proton ...interactions play a significant role. Furthermore we point out that a complete set of elementary data is desirable, because most theoretical concepts for the interpretation of nuclear collisions rely on such data as input for their calculations.
Differential production cross sections of K- and K+ mesons have been measured in Ni+Ni and Au+Au collisions at a beam energy of 1.5 A GeV. The K(-)/K(+) ratio is found to be nearly constant as a ...function of the collision centrality and system size. The spectral slopes and the polar emission pattern differ for K- and K+ mesons. These observations indicate that K+ mesons decouple earlier from the fireball than K- mesons.
The production of pions and kaons has been measured in 197Au+197Au collisions at beam energies from 0.6 to 1.5A GeV with the kaon spectrometer at SIS/GSI. The K+ meson multiplicity per nucleon is ...enhanced in Au+Au collisions by factors up to 6 relative to C+C reactions, whereas the corresponding pion ratio is reduced. The ratio of the K+ meson excitation functions for Au+Au and C+C collisions increases with decreasing beam energy. This behavior is expected for a soft nuclear equation-of-state.
Charged particle detection in organic semiconductors Beckerle, P; Ströbele, H
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
07/2000, Volume:
449, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Polyacetylene is an organic semiconductor in which charges can be set free by a traversing charged particle, transported by an electric field to read-out electrodes and, subsequently, amplified and ...recorded in a way similar to what happens in a silicon-drift detector. In an experimental investigation of the features of this charge transport in thin foils we find drift velocities of the order of 40 cm/s. Stretching of the foils by a factor of three to four increases the drift velocity by a factor of ten and introduces a strong directionality of the charge transport. The detection efficiency of 5 MeV α particles in a few micron thin stretched foil is around 70%.
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