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NA49 evidence for the onset of deconfinement

Nuclear Experiment 2014-11-20 v1

Abstract

We review the experimental results obtained by the NA49 collaboration in the context of its beam energy scan programme. The data on particle yields and spectral distributions suggest that the deconfinement phase transition is first reached in central collisions of heavy nuclei at about 30A GeV beam energy. Hadron-string transport models as well as the hadron gas model fail to describe the observed energy dependences unless additional parameters or unmeasured states are included.

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@article{arxiv.0908.2720,
  title  = {NA49 evidence for the onset of deconfinement},
  author = {V. Friese},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.2720},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD 2009), Brookhaven, USA, June 2009