Search for Strangelets and Other Rare Objects in Au + Pt Collisions at the AGS Using a Fixed-Angle Focusing Spectrometer
Abstract
During the 1993 AGS heavy ion run, experiment E886 conducted a strangelet search in Au + Pt reactions, with beam momentum of 10.8 GeV/c per nucleon. Presented here are the upper limit for strangelet production, invariant cross sections for p, t, d 3He, 4He, 6He, 8He, 6Li, 7Li, 8Li and 7Be, along with a demonstration of their agreement with a coalescence model fit to data collected by E886 during the 1992 engineering run, and upper limits for production cross sections for other rare objects, such as (H dibaryon)-nucleus systems. All results reported here are preliminary.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics A
- Pub Date:
- February 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0375-9474(94)00544-W
- Bibcode:
- 1995NuPhA.585...59R