Abstract
E896 was designed to search for the predicted short-lived six-quark H0 dibaryon. The goal is to enhance the existing knowledge by extending the search into regions of shorter lifetimes (approximately half that of the lambda) and via exploring a new creation channel, that of the coalescence of two lambdas. Two main tracking chambers are used, a distributed drift chamber positioned to measure low-pt and high-rapidity neutral particle decay products and a silicon drift detector array which measures particle production at mid-rapidity. Both detectors are also investigating lambda polarization, over their respective coverages, for Au-Au collisions at 11.3 GeV/nucleon. The current status of the H0 di-baryon search and preliminary results of the strange particle production and polarization measurements will be presented.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 311-318 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2001 |
Externally published | Yes |