First results from CERN lead beam experiment NA49

Journal Article · Fri Mar 31 23:00:00 EST 1995 · Bulletin of the American Physical Society

OSTI ID:374699

Jacobs, P

NA49 is a major new experimental facility at the CERN SPS designed for the study of Lead-Lead collisions at ultrarelativistic energies. The main components of NA49 are four large Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) situated inside and downstream of two dipole magnets for the momentum analysis and identification of all (meta)stable hadrons in the forward half of phase space. Two of the four TPCs were brought into operation during the first Lead Beam run at the CERN SPS in November 1994. The author presents the first physics results from the TPCs for central and minimum bias Lead-Lead collisions at 160 GeV/nucleon.

• OSTI ID: 374699
• Report Number(s): CONF-9304297--
• Journal Information: Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Journal Name: Bulletin of the American Physical Society Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 40; ISSN 0003-0503; ISSN BAPSA6
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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66 PHYSICS
CERN SPS SYNCHROTRON
DEEP INELASTIC HEAVY ION REACTIONS
LEAD
TEV RANGE 10-100
TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS