1. Determination of the total $c\overline{c}$ production cross section in $340 GeV/c \Sigma^{-}$ - nucleus interactions
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Adamovich, M.I., Aleksandrov, Yu.A., Barberis, D., Beck, M., Berat, C., Beusch, W., Boss, M., Brons, S., Brueckner, W., Buenerd, M., Busch, C., Buescher, C., Charignon, F., Chauvin, J., Chudakov, E.A., Dersch, U., Dropmann, F., Engelfried, J., Faller, F., Fournier, A., Gerasimov, S.G., Godbersen, M., Grafstrom, P., Haller, T., Heidrich, M., Hubbard, E., Hurst, R.B., Konigsmann, K., Konorov, I., Keller, N., Martens, K., Martin, P., Masciocchi, S., Michaels, R., Muller, U., Neeb, H., Newbold, D., Newsom, C., Paul, S., Pochodzalla, J., Potashnikova, I., Povh, B., Ransome, R.D., Ren, Zhuoxiang, Rey-Campagnolle, M., Rosner, G., Rossi, L., Rudolph, H., Scheel, C., Schmitt, L., Siebert, H.W., Simon, A., Smith, V.J., Thilmann, O., Trombini, A., Vesin, E., Volkemer, B., Vorwalter, K., Walcher, T., Walder, G., Werding, R., Wittmann, E., Zavertyaev, M.V., Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and WA89
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[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The production of charmed particles by Sigma- of 340 Gev/c momentum was studied in the hyperon beam experiment WA89 at the CERN-SPS, using the Omega-spectrometer. In two data-taking periods in 1993 and 1994 an integrated luminosity of 1600 microb^-1 on copper and carbon targets was recorded. From the reconstruction of 930 +- 90 charm particle decays in 10 decay channels production cross sections for D, antiD, Ds and Lambdac were determined in the region xF>0. Assuming an A^1 dependence of the cross section on the nucleon number, we calculate a total ccbar production cross section of sigma(x_F > 0) = 5.3+- 0.4(stat)+-1.0(syst)+1.0(Xi_c) microb per nucleon. The last term is an upper limit on the unknown contribution from charmed-strange baryon production.
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- 2000