Inclusive reconstruction of hadron resonances in elementary and heavy-ion collisions with HADES

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Nov 29, 2016

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Abstract: (EDP Sciences)
The unambiguous identification of hadron modifications in hot and dense QCD matter is one of the important goals in nuclear physics. In the regime of 1 - 2 GeV kinetic energy per nucleon, HADES has measured rare and penetrating probes in elementary and heavy-ion collisions. The main creation mechanism of mesons is the excitation and decay of baryonic resonances throughout the fireball evolution. The reconstruction of shortlived (sim 1 fm/c) resonance states through their decay products is notoriously difficult. We have developed a new iterative algorithm, which builds the best hypothesis of signal and background by distortion of individual particle properties. This allows to extract signals with signal-to-background ratios of <1%.
  • hadron: resonance
  • baryon resonance: decay
  • fireball
  • excited state
  • energy: kinetic
  • background
  • signal processing
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • quantum chromodynamics: matter
  • HADES