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Report number nucl-ex/0202019
Title Particle production in central Pb + Pb collisions at 158 AGeV/c
Related titleSUPER PROTON SYNCHROTRON
Particle production in Pb + Pb collisions at the CERN SPS
Author(s)

Bearden, I.G. ; Boggild, H. ; Boissevain, J. ; Christiansen, P.H.L. ; Conin, L. ; Dodd, J. ; Erazmus, B. ; Esumi, S. ; Fabjan, C.W. ; Ferenc, D. ; Fields, D.E. ; Franz, A. ; Gaardhoje, J.J. ; Hamelin, M. ; Hansen, A.G. ; Hansen, O. ; Hardtke, D. ; van Hecke, H. ; Holzer, E.B. ; Humanic, T.J. ; Hummel, P. ; Jacak, B.V. ; Kaimi, K. ; Kaneta, M. ; Kohama, T. ; Kopytine, M. ; Leltchouk, M. ; Ljubicic, A., Jr. ; Lorstad, B. ; Maeda, N. ; Malina, R. ; Martin, L. ; Medvedev, A. ; Murray, M. ; Ohnishi, H. ; Paic, G. ; Pandey, S.U. ; Piuz, F. ; Pluta, J. ; Polychronakos, V. ; Potekhin, M. ; Poulard, G. ; Reichhold, D. ; Sakaguchi, A. ; Schmidt-Sorensen, J. ; Simon-Gillo, J. ; Sondheim, W. ; Spegel, M. ; Sugitate, T. ; Sullivan, J.P. ; Sumi, Y. ; Willis, W.J. ; Wolf, K.L. ; Xu, N. ; Zachary, D.S.

Affiliation (CERN)
Publication 2002
Imprint 2002-02
Number of pages 10 p, 10
Note 10 pages, including 11 figures and 3 tables, REVTeX, submitted to Phys. Rev. C (2nd version)
In: Phys. Rev. C 66 (2002) 44907-1-9
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevC.66.044907
Subject category Nuclear Physics
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN SPS ; NA44
Abstract The NA44 experiment has measured single-particle inclusive spectra for charged pions, kaons, and protons as a function of transverse mass near midrapidity in 158A GeV/c Pb+Pb collisions. From the particle mass dependence of the observed m/sub T/ distributions, we are able to deduce a value of about 120 MeV for the temperature at thermal freeze-out. From the observed ratios of the rapidity densities, we find values of the chemical potentials for light and strange quarks and a chemical freeze-out temperature of approximately 140 MeV. (34 refs).



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