Collective expansion in high-energy heavy ion collisions

Collaboration
Nov, 1996
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 78 (1997) 2080-2083
Report number:
  • CERN-PPE-96-163
Experiments:

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Abstract: (APS)
Transverse mass spectra of pions, kaons, and protons from the symmetric heavy-ion collisions 200 A GeV S+S and 158 A GeV Pb+Pb, measured in the NA44 focusing spectrometer at CERN, are presented. The mass dependence of the slope parameters provides evidence of collective transverse flow from expansion of the system in heavy-ion induced central collisions.
  • nucleus nucleus: nuclear reaction
  • scattering: heavy ion
  • sulfur
  • lead
  • p p: interaction
  • pi: hadroproduction
  • K: hadroproduction
  • p: hadroproduction
  • mass spectrum: transverse
  • mass spectrum: slope