scholarly journals The Small Acceptance Vertex Detector of NA61/SHINE

2018 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 21001
Author(s):  
M. Deveaux ◽  
A. Aduszkiewicz ◽  
Y. Ali ◽  
M. Baszczyk ◽  
W. Brylinski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Particle Production ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Open Charm ◽  
Collision System ◽  
Charm Mesons ◽  
Vertex Detector ◽  
Charmonium Production ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Diagnostic Probe

Charmonium production in heavy ion collisions is considered as an important diagnostic probe for studying the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter for potential phase transitions. The interpretation of existing data from the CERN SPS is hampered by a lack of knowledge on the properties of open charm particle production in the fireball. Moreover, open charm production in heavy ion collisions by itself is poorly understood. To overcome this obstacle, the NA61/SHINE was equipped with a Small Acceptance Vertex Detector (SAVD), which is predicted to make the experiment sensitive to open charm mesons produced in A-A collisions at the SPS top energy. This paper will introduce the concept and the hardware of the SAVD. Moreover, first running experience as obtained in a commissioning run with a 150 AGeV/c Pb+Pb collision system will be reported.

scholarly journals The Small Acceptance Vertex Detector of NA61/SHINE

2018 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 10003 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Deveaux ◽  
A. Aduszkiewicz ◽  
Y. Ali ◽  
M. Baszczyk ◽  
W. Brylinski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Particle Production ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Open Charm ◽  
Collision System ◽  
Charm Mesons ◽  
Vertex Detector ◽  
Charmonium Production ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Diagnostic Probe

Charmonium production in heavy ion collisions is considered as an important diagnostic probe for studying the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter for potential phase transitions. The interpretation of existing data from the CERN SPS is hampered by a lack of knowledge on the properties of open charm particle production in the fireball. Moreover, open charm production in heavy ion collisions by itself is poorly understood. To overcome this obstacle, the NA61/SHINE was equipped with a Small Acceptance Vertex Detector (SAVD), which is predicted to make the experiment sensitive to open charm mesons produced in A-A collisions at the SPS top energy. This paper will introduce the concept and the hardware of the SAVD. Moreover, first running experience as obtained in a commissioning run with a 150 AGeV/c Pb+Pb collision system will be reported.

scholarly journals Production of open-charm mesons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

2018 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Li ◽  
Chaowen Wang ◽  
Xianbao Yuan ◽  
Shengqin Feng
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Open Charm ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Charm Mesons ◽  
Ion Collisions

scholarly journals Thermal dilepton signal versus dileptons from open charm and bottom decays in heavy-ion collisions

1998 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 3276-3283 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Gallmeister ◽  
B. Kämpfer ◽  
O. Pavlenko
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Open Charm ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Dilepton Signal

Very-high-energy light charged-particle production near 0° in heavy-ion collisions, 9≤E/A≤40 MeV

1990 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 1519-1529 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Shaheen ◽  
F. D. Becchetti ◽  
D. A. Roberts ◽  
J. W. Jänecke ◽  
R. L. Stern ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Charged Particle ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Particle Production ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Light Charged Particle ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Charged Particle Production ◽  
Very High Energy ◽  
Very High

scholarly journals Particle Production in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions: A Statistical-Thermal Model Review

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Tiwari ◽  
C. P. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Model ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Particle Production ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Transverse Mass ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Thermal Models ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

The current status of various thermal and statistical descriptions of particle production in the ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions experiments is presented in detail. We discuss the formulation of various types of thermal models of a hot and dense hadron gas (HG) and the methods incorporated in the implementing of the interactions between hadrons. It includes our new excluded-volume model which is thermodynamically consistent. The results of the above models together with the experimental results for various ratios of the produced hadrons are compared. We derive some new universal conditions emerging at the chemical freeze-out of HG fireball showing independence with respect to the energy as well as the structure of the nuclei used in the collision. Further, we calculate various transport properties of HG such as the ratio of shear viscosity-to-entropy using our thermal model and compare with the results of other models. We also show the rapidity as well as transverse mass spectra of various hadrons in the thermal HG model in order to outline the presence of flow in the fluid formed in the collision. The purpose of this review article is to organize and summarize the experimental data obtained in various experiments with heavy-ion collisions and then to examine and analyze them using thermal models so that a firm conclusion regarding the formation of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) can be obtained.

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