1. $\Sigma^0$ production in proton nucleus collisions near threshold
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Adamczewski-Musch, J., Agakishiev, G., Arnold, O., Atomssa, E. T., Behnke, C., Berger-Chen, J. C., Biernat, J., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Chernenko, P. Bordalo S., Deveaux, C., Dybczak, A., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fonte, O. Fateev P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Gill, K., Golubeva, M., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Hlavac, T. Hennino S., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., Kämpfer, M. Jurkovic B., Karavicheva, T., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Krása, A., Krebs, E., Kuc, H., Kunz, A. Kugler T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Maurus, S., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Metag, V., Michel, J., Müntz, C., Naumann, R. Münzer L., Palka, M., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petousis, V., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Rehnisch, L., Reshetin, A., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schmidt-Sommerfeld, K., Schuldes, H., Sellheim, P., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Strzempek, P., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Tarantola, A., Teilab, K., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Vasiliev, T., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wirth, J., Wüstenfeld, J., Zanevsky, Y., and Zumbruch, P.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The production of $\Sigma^{0}$ baryons in the nuclear reaction p (3.5 GeV) + Nb (corresponding to $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=3.18$ GeV) is studied with the detector set-up HADES at GSI, Darmstadt. $\Sigma^{0}$s were identified via the decay $\Sigma^{0} \rightarrow \Lambda \gamma$ with subsequent decays $\Lambda \rightarrow p \pi^{-}$ in coincidence with a $e^{+}e^{-}$ pair from either external ($\gamma \rightarrow e^{+} e^{-}$) or internal (Dalitz decay $\gamma^{*}\rightarrow e^{+} e^{-}$) gamma conversions. The differential $\Sigma^0$ cross section integrated over the detector acceptance, i.e. the rapidity interval $0.5 < y < 1.1$, has been extracted as $\Delta\sigma_{\Sigma^{0}} = 2.3 \pm (0.2)^{stat} \pm \left(^{+0.6}_{-0.6}\right)^{sys} \pm (0.2)^{norm}$ mb, yielding the inclusive production cross section in full phase space $\sigma^{total}_{\Sigma^{0}} = 5.8 \pm (0.5)^{stat} \pm \left(^{+1.4}_{-1.4}\right)^{sys} \pm (0.6)^{norm} \pm (1.7)^{extrapol}$ mb by averaging over different extrapolation methods. The $\Lambda_{all}$/$\Sigma^{0}$ ratio within the HADES acceptance is equal to 2.3 $\pm$ $(0.2)^{stat}$ $\pm$ $(^{+0.6}_{-0.6})^{sys}$. The obtained rapidity and momentum distributions are compared to transport model calculations. The $\Sigma^{0}$ yield agrees with the statistical model of particle production in nuclear reactions., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures
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- 2017
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