Centrality dependence of K+ produced in Pb plus Pb collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon

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Kabana, S
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[1] Univ Bern, High Energy Phys Lab, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
[2] LAPP, CNRS, IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[3] CERN, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[4] Coll France, PCC, F-75005 Paris, France
[5] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[6] Univ Helsinki, Helsinki Inst Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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10.1088/0954-3899/27/3/329
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O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
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The NA52 collaboration is searching for a discontinuous behaviour of charged kaons produced in Pb + Pb collisions at 158 A GeV as a function of the impact parameter, which could reveal a quark-gluon plasma phase transition. The K+ yield is found to grow proportionally to the number of participating ('wounded') nucleons N, above N = 100. Previous NA52 data agree with the above finding and show a discontinuous behaviour in the kaon centrality dependence near N = 100, marking the onset of strangeness enhancement, over, for example, p + A data at the same roots, in a chemically equilibrated phase.
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