An update on the strangeness production measurements and H0 di-baryon search as performed by the AGS experiment 896

  • H. Caines
  • , S. Albergo
  • , R. Bellwied
  • , M. Bennett
  • , D. Boemi
  • , B. Bonner
  • , Z. Caccia
  • , W. Christie
  • , G. Cinà
  • , S. Costa
  • , H. Crawford
  • , M. Cronqvist
  • , R. Debbe
  • , J. Engelage
  • , I. Flores
  • , L. Greiner
  • , T. Hallman
  • , G. Hoffman
  • , H. Huang
  • , T. J. Humanic
  • G. Igo, A. Insolia, P. Jensen, E. Judd, K. Kainz, M. Kaplan, S. Kelly, I. Kotov, G. Kunde, P. Lindstrom, T. Ljubicic, W. Llope, G. Lo Curto, R. Longacre, D. Lynn, L. Madansky, N. Mahzeh, Z. Milosevich, J. T. Mitchell, J. Mitchell, S. Nehmeh, C. Nociforo, S. Paganis, S. U. Pandey, R. Potenza, E. Platner, P. Riley, D. Russ, A. Saulys, J. Schambach, J. Sheen, C. Stokley, E. Sugarbaker, J. Takahashi, J. Tang, A. Tratner, S. Trentalange, A. Tricomi, C. Tull, C. Tuvè, J. Whitfield, K. Wilson

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)311-318
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Volume27
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2001
Externally publishedYes

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