Production De Phi Et Omega Dans Les Collisions Pb Pb A 158 Gev Par Nucleon

Author : Tao Wu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
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Download or read book Production de Phi Et Oméga Dans Les Collisions Pb-Pb À 158 Gev Par Nucléon written by Tao Wu and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most central collisions of Pb-Pb nuclei at SPS CERN, sufficiently high values of energy density could be reached so that a transient new state of matter, the plasma of quarks and gluons (QGP) could be formed. The identification of the production of this state relies on consequences it could induceon final products of the collision, like J/psi suppression due to screening effect on the quark pair potential, or increase of the strangeness production in the plasma. Measuring muon pairs in coincidence with observables characterising the PbPb impact parameter, like the transverse energy E-T produced, the NASO experiment bas observed the anomalous suppression of the J/psi and the enhancement of the phi(grec) production. This thesis deals mainly with the phi production study in the data collected by NA50 in year 2000, with an improved experimental setup, in particular concerning the trigger used for measurement of the transverse energy distribution of the Pb-Pb collisions, and rejection of collisions not occurring in the target. These improvements have given a better access to peripheral and central collisions. The transverse energy spectrum obtained is nicely reproduced by a Glauber geometrical model of the collision, from a low E-T threshold. A cross check between various muon pairs multiplicities do not exhibit systematical bias for the most central collisions. Similarly a cross comparison between J/psi and minimum bias events as a function of E-T bas been used to determine the effect on the efficiency of signal determination, of rejections performed on the events. The behaviour of J/psi multiplicity with E-T which is obtained in this study does not confirm the additional drop that could have been suggested by previous results. Inversely the observed decrease of the J/psi multiplicity divided by the number of n-n collisions determined in the Glauber calculation does not seem to saturate for the most central collisions, as predicted by several models which does not suppose the formation of a QGP. The multiplicities and cross sections that we obtain with 2000 datas for phi and w(omega) are in agreement with the ones obtained with previous data sets. The change in the phi branching ratio into dimuons partly reconciles NA50 phi multiplicities with the one measured by NA49 experiment, but the slopes of the MT spectra remains very different. In summary this study confirms the results previously obtained, and brings additional information about most central collision, for J/psi and phi multiplicities. The interest of the phi/w(omega) ratio as a direct estimate of the square of the strangeness saturation factor [gamma]s is underlined.