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Observation of the antimatter helium-4 nucleus at RHIC

Nuclear Experiment 2015-05-28 v1

Abstract

We present the observation of the \Heebar nucleus, the heaviest antinucleus observed to date. In total, 18 \Heebar counts were detected at the STAR experiment at RHIC in 109^{9} recorded Au+Au collisions at beam energies of sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV and 62 GeV. The background has been estimated, and the misidentification probability is found to be lower than 1011^{-11}.

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@article{arxiv.1107.0108,
  title  = {Observation of the antimatter helium-4 nucleus at RHIC},
  author = {Liang Xue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.0108},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, to appear as proceedings of QM2011 conference at Annecy, France