Strangelet Search in Pb-Pb Interactions at 158 GeV $/$ cper Nucleon

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20 May 1996

journal article
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Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 76 (21) , 3907-3910
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.76.3907

Abstract

The NA52 experiment searches for long-lived massive strange quark matter particles, so-called

{s t r a n g e l e t s, p r o d u c e d i n P b - P b c o l l i s i o n s a t a b e a m m o m e n t u m o f p_{lab} = 158 A GeV / c . U p p e r l i m i t s f o r t h e p r o d u c t i o n o f s t r a n g e l e t s a t z e r o d e g r e e p r o d u c t i o n a n g l e c o v e r i n g a m a s s t o c h a r g e r a t i o u p t o 120 GeV / c}^{2}

and lifetimes

t_{lab} ≳ 1.2

μs are given. The data presented here were taken during the 1994 lead beam running period at CERN.

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