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标题：Strangelets, strangeness and antimatter: results from the experiment NA52 at CERN
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作者：S. Kabana ; G. Ambrosini ; R. Arsenescu 等
期刊名称：PoS - Proceedings of Science
印刷版ISSN：1824-8039
出版年度：2001
卷号：2001
出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：We present results of the CERN experiment NA52 which measures Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A GeV. The topics we address are: 1. strangelet search, 2. nuclei and antinuclei production and 3. strangeness production. No strangelets have been found. We set upper limits which stretch down to the minimal values of 2 10−10 for negatively and 3 10−9 for positively charged strangelets. We observed 5 3He near midrapidity. Nuclei and antinuclei cross sections suggest production mainly through coalescence, out of a thermalised particle source, at the time of the thermal freeze-out as witnessed by their temperature of 100-120 MeV. Charged kaons per participant nucleon (Np) show an onset of enhancement followed by saturation at Np 80, corresponding approximately to an initial energy density of i 1.3 GeV/fm3. This onset may be connected to the onset of the QCD phase transition.