First results from the NA60 experiment at CERN
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Since 1986, several heavy ion experiments have studied some signatures of the formation of the quark-gluon plasma and a few exciting results have been found. However, some important questions are still unanswered and require new measurements. The NA60 experiment, with a new detector concept that vastly improves dimuon detection in proton-nucleus and heavy-ion collisions, studies several of those open questions, including the production of open charm. This paper presents the experiment and some first results from data collected in 2002.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0307085,
title = {First results from the NA60 experiment at CERN},
author = {Gianluca Usai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0307085},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Paper presented at the XXXVIII Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, March 22-29, 2003. 4 pages, 6 figures