Search for strangelets and other rare objects in Au + Pt collisions at the AGS using a fixed-angle focusing spectrometer

Conference · Sun Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:10105562

Rusek, A; Bassalleck, B; Fischer, H ^[1]; Berdoz, A; Franklin, G B ^[2]; Buerger, T; Burger, M ^[3]; Chrien, R E ^[4]; Diebold, G E ^[5]; En`yo, H ^[6]

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1. Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
2. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Dept. of Physics
3. Univ. of Freiburg (Germany). Fakultaet fuer Physik
4. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
5. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Physics Dept.
6. Kyoto Univ. (Japan). Dept. of Physics; and others

During the 1993 AGS heavy ion run, experiment E886 conducted a strangelet search in Au + Pt reactions, with beam momentum of 10.8 GeV/c per nucleon. Presented here are the upper limit for strangelet production, invariant cross sections for p, t, d, {sup 3}He, {sup 4}He, {sup 6}He, {sup 8}He, {sup 6}Li, {sup 7}Li, {sup 8}Li and {sup 7}Be, along with a demonstration of their agreement with a coalescence model fit to data collected by E886 during the 1992 engineering run, and upper limits for production cross sections for other rare objects, such as (H dibaryon)-nucleus systems. All results reported are preliminary.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 10105562
• Report Number(s): BNL--60964; CONF-940725--5; ON: DE95003950
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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