1. Open charm measurements in NA61/SHINE at CERN SPS
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Staszel, Paweł, Aduszkiewicz, A., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Baatar, B., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, Janusz, Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Bzdak, Adam, Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deveaux, M., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kaptur, E., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, Dag, László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, Konrad, Łysakowski, B., Lyubushkin, V.V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Zbigniew, Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manić, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, Antoni, Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H.-J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G.L., Merzlaya, Anastasia, Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, Roman, Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Richter-Wąs, Elżbieta, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Snoch, A., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszyński, Oskar, Zambelli, L., Zimmerman, E. D., Zwaska, R., and Scomparin, Enrico
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Meson production ,Large Hadron Collider ,Meson ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,nuclear experiment ,FOS: Physical sciences ,SPS ,measurements of open charm ,nucl-ex ,pb collisions ,nucleus ,CERN ,Nuclear Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Heavy ion ,Vertex detector ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,Open charm ,Nuclear Experiment ,Dense matter - Abstract
The measurements of open charm production was proposed as an important tool to investigate the properties of hot and dense matter formed in nucleus-nucleus collisions as well as to provide the means for model independent interpretation of the existing data on $\text{J}/\psi$ suppression. Recently, the experimental setup of the NA61/SHINE experiment was supplemented with a Vertex Detector which was motivated by the importance and the possibility of the first direct measurements of open charm meson production in heavy ion collisions at SPS energies. First test data taken in December 2016 on Pb+Pb collisions at 150$A$ GeV/$c$ allowed to validate the general concept of D$^0$ meson detection via its D$^0 \to \pi^+ + K^-$ decay channel and delivered a first indication of open charm production. The physics motivation of open charm measurements at SPS energies, pilot results on open charm production, and finally, the future plans of open charm measurements in the NA61/SHINE experiment after LS2 are presented., Comment: Quark Matter 2018 proceedings Submitted to Nuclear Physics A
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- 2019
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