1. SubthresholdΞ−Production in Collisions ofp(3.5 GeV)+Nb
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S. P. Chernenko, Volker Metag, T. Heinz, J. Michel, O. Pechenova, J. Pietraszko, Laura Fabbietti, Yu.V. Zanevsky, D. González-Díaz, M. B. Golubeva, A. Balanda, Piotr Salabura, L. Naumann, P. Tlusty, Y. Parpottas, C. Wendisch, Kirill Lapidus, C. Müntz, A. Tarantola, L. Maier, Filip Krizek, B. Spruck, Eliane Epple, R. Müntzer, Yu. G. Sobolev, T. Hennino, H. Tsertos, A. M. Schmah, S. Yurevich, Y. C. Pachmayer, Kathrin Göbel, A. Lebedev, W. Kühn, G. Kornakov, P. Cabanelas, J. Stroth, B. Ramstein, Witold Przygoda, S. Lang, I. Koenig, V. Pechenov, D. Belver, Andrey Reshetin, M. Lorenz, H. Kuc, Tatiana Karavicheva, A. B. Kurepin, M. Traxler, Alexander Belyaev, T. A. Vasiliev, B. W. Kolb, J. Friese, O. V. Fateev, Tetyana Galatyuk, J. Siebenson, M. Böhmer, A. Mangiarotti, C. Sturm, W. Koenig, E. Schwab, A.P. Ierusalimov, B. Kämpfer, A. Rustamov, J. Wüstenfeld, R. Lalik, T. Liu, J. L. Boyard, L. Lopes, M. Gumberidze, Roman Gernhäuser, R. Krücken, R. Holzmann, J. Markert, G. Agakishiev, Paolo Finocchiaro, A. Kugler, V. P. Ladygin, B. Michalska, S. Spataro, I. Fröhlich, A. Dybczak, J. C. Berger-Chen, A. Krása, J. A. Garzón, A. Blanco, P. Fonte, M. Jurkovic, A. Ivashkin, R. Kotte, Fedor Guber, Oliver Werner Arnold, Michael Weber, R. Trebacz, I. Iori, H. Ströbele, V. Wagner, K. Teilab, Marek Palka, and A. Sadovsky
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Nuclear physics ,Baryon ,Physics ,Particle physics ,Subthreshold conduction ,Hyperon ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Heavy ion ,7. Clean energy ,Beam energy - Abstract
Results on the production of the double strange cascade hyperon Ξ^{-} are reported for collisions of p(3.5 GeV)+Nb, studied with the High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES) at SIS18 at GSI Helmholtzzentrum for Heavy-Ion Research, Darmstadt. For the first time, subthreshold Ξ^{-} production is observed in proton-nucleus interactions. Assuming a Ξ^{-} phase-space distribution similar to that of Λ hyperons, the production probability amounts to P_{Ξ^{-}}=[2.0±0.4(stat)±0.3(norm)±0.6(syst)]×10^{-4} resulting in a Ξ^{-}/(Λ+Σ^{0}) ratio of P_{Ξ^{-}}/P_{Λ+Σ^{0}}=[1.2±0.3(stat)±0.4(syst)]×10^{-2}. Available model predictions are significantly lower than the measured Ξ^{-} yield.
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- 2015