Strangeness, Charm and Beauty in Quark Matter: SQM 2007 Experimental Overview (2007)
This paper aims at providing an experimental overview of the Strangeness in Quark Matter 2007 Conference
Heavy-Ion Physics with ALICE (2007)
The ALICE detector, expected to start operating at the Large Hadron Collider this year, was designed specifically for the study of heavy-ion collisions. In this paper we recall the main features of...
The paper provides a short report on strangeness production in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collision, with the main stress on strange particle abundances.
New results from the NA57 experiment (2003)
Bruno, G, Antinori, Federico, Bacon, P A, Badalà, A, Barbera, R, Belogianni, A, ...
We report results from the experiment NA57 at CERN SPS on hyperon production at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 $A$ GeV/$c$ and 40 $A$ GeV/$c$. $\Lambda$, $\Xi$ and $\Omega$ yields are...
Antinori, Federico, Caliandro, R, Fini, R, Formenti, F, Lenti, V, Meddi, F, ...
New trigger inputs for the ALICE Central Trigger Processor (CTP) are proposed. They are based on the use of Fast Multiplicity (FM) output signals generated by the ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector (SPD)....
Colliding two heavy nuclei at ultrarelativistic energies allows to create in the laboratory a bulk system with huge density, pressure and temperature and to study its properties. It is estimated that...
Irradiation and SPS Beam Tests of the Alice1LHCb Pixel Chip (2001)
Van Hunen, J J, Anelli, G, Antinori, Federico, Burns, M, Banicz, K, Campbell, M, ...
The Alice1LHCb front-end chip has been designed for the ALICE pixel and the LHCb RICH detectors. It is fabricated in a commercial 0.25 µm CMOS technology, with special design techniques to obtain...
Colliding two heavy nuclei at ultrarelativistic energies allows to create in the laboratory a bulk system with huge density, pressure and temperature and to study its properties. It is estimated that...
Production of strange and multistrange hadrons in nucleus-nucleus collisions at SPS (2000)
Antinori, Federico, Bakke, H, Beusch, Werner, Bloodworth, Ian J, Caliandro, R, Carrer, N, ...
We report the main results from experiment WA97 on the production of strange and multistrange hadrons at midrapidity in Pb+Pb, p+Pb and p+Be collisions at 158~A~GeV/$c$. A comparison with some of the...
Antinori, Federico, Bakke, H, Beusch, Werner, Bloodworth, Ian J, Caliandro, R, Carrer, N, ...
The WA97 experiment has measured the transverse mass (\mT) spectra fornegative hadrons (\hneg) and strange particles produced at mid--rapidity in Pb--Pb collisions. The increased statistics of...
Determination of the number of wounded nucleons in Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c (2000)
Antinori, Federico, Badalà, A, Bakke, H, Barbera, R, Beker, H, Beusch, Werner, ...
The charged particle multiplicity distributions measured by two experiments, WA97 and NA57, in Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c have been analyzed in the framework of the wounded nucleon model (WNM)....
Strangeness enhancement at mid-rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 GeV/c (1999)
Andersen, E, Antinori, Federico, Armenise, N, Bakke, H, Bán, J, Barberis, D, ...
$K^{0}_{s}$, $\Lambda$, $\Xi$, $\Omega$ and negative particle yields and transverse mass spectra have been measured at central rapidity in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions at 158 $A$ GeV/$c$. The yields in...
Andersen, E, Antinori, Federico, Armenise, N, Bakke, H, Bán, J, Barberis, D, ...
$\Lambda$, $\Xi$ and $\Omega$ yields and transverse mass spectra have been measured at central rapidity in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions at 158~A~GeV/$c$. The yields in Pb-Pb interactions are presente d...
A new VME trigger processor for the NA57 experiment (1998)
Antinori, Federico, Beker, H, Bloodworth, Ian J, Evans, D, Feofilov, G A, Jones, G T, ...
The ALICE experiment will use a trigger concept requiring independent deadtimes for each sub-detector system, and with detector-specific past-future protection. These features are implemented in a...
A new VME trigger processor for the NA57 experiment (1998)
Antinori, Federico, Beker, H, Bloodworth, Ian J, Evans, D, Feofilov, G A, Jones, G T, ...
The ALICE experiment will use a trigger concept requiring independent deadtimes for each sub-detector system, and with detector-specific past-future protection. These features are implemented in a...
Measurement of the beauty production cross-section in 350 GeV/c $\pi^-$ -Cu interactions (1998)
Adamovich, M I, Adinolfi, M, Alexandrov, Yu A, Angelini, C, Antinori, Federico, Bacci, Cesare, ...
Using a sample of $10^8$ triggered events, produced in $\pi^-$--$\,$Cu interactions at 350~GeV$/c$, we have identified 26 beauty events. The estimated background in this sample is $0.6 \pm 0.6$...
Hyperon production in proton-sulphur collisions at 200 GeV/c (1996)
Abatzis, A, Andersen, E, Andrighetto, A, Antinori, Federico, Bayes, A C, Benayoun, M, ...
The WA94 experiment uses the production of strange particles and antiparticles to investigate the properties of hot hadronic matter created in heavy--ion interactions. \PgL, \PagL, \PgXm\ and \PagXp\...
WA92: a fixed target experiment to trigger on and identify beauty particle decays (1996)
Adamovich, M I, Adinolfi, M, Alexandrov, Yu A, Angelini, C, Antinori, Federico, Bacci, Cesare, ...
We describe the detectors and trigger system used in the CERN WA92 experiment. The experiment was designed to study the production and decay of beauty particles from 350 GeV/$c\,$ $\,\pi^-$...
Charged kaon production in S-W collisions at 200 GeV/c per nucleon (1995)
Abatzis, S, Andrighetto, A, Antinori, Federico, Barnes, R P, Bayes, A C, Benayoun, M, ...
Study of charm correlations in $\pi^{-}$-N interactions at \Sqrt s $\appprox$ 26 GeV (1995)
Adamovich, M I, Adinolfi, M, Alexandrov, Yu A, Angelini, C, Antinori, Federico, Bacci, Cesare, ...
The use of a decay detector in the search for beauty decays in the WA92 experiment (1994)
Adamovich, M I, Adinolfi, M, Alexandrov, T, Angelini, C, Antinori, Federico, Bacci, Cesare, ...
First operation of a 72 k element hybrid silicon micropattern pixel detector array (1994)
Heijne, Erik H M, Antinori, Federico, Arnold, R, Barberis, D, Beker, H, Beusch, Werner, ...
First results from experiment WA91 at the CERN Omega Spectrometer (1993)
Antinori, Federico, Barberis, D, Barnes, R P, Bayes, A C, Beusch, Werner, Carney, J N, ...
Results on charmed meson decay from the WA82 experiment at the CERN OMEGA spectometer (1993)
Adamovich, M I, Alexandrov, Yu A, Antinori, Federico, Barberis, D, Beusch, Werner, Buys, A, ...
Results on charm hadroproduction from CERN experiment WA82 (1992)
Adamovich, M I, Alexandrov, Yu A, Anselmi, R, Antinori, Federico, Barberis, D, Beusch, Werner, ...
Nuclear dependence of charm production by a 340 GeV $\pi^{-}$ beam (1992)
Adamovich, M I, Alexandrov, Yu A, Antinori, Federico, Barberis, D, Beusch, Werner, Buys, A, ...
New results from charm hadroproduction experiment WA82 (1992)
Buys, A, Adamovich, M I, Alexandrov, Yu A, Antinori, Federico, Barberis, D, Beusch, Werner, ...
Measurement of relative branching fractions of D$^{0}$ Cabibbo-suppressed decays (1992)
Adamovich, M I, Alexandrov, Yu A, Antinori, Federico, Barberis, D, Beusch, Werner, Buys, A, ...
Strange particle production in sulphur-tungsten interactions at 200 GeV/c per nucleon (1991)
Kinson, J B, Abatzis, S, Antinori, Federico, Barnes, R P, Bayes, A C, Benayoun, M, ...
WA85 results on strangeness production in heavy ion collisions (1991)
Abatzis, S, Antinori, Federico, Barnes, R P, Benayoun, M, Beusch, Werner, Bloodworth, Ian J, ...
A study of the semileptonic decay D$^{+}$ --> $\overline{K}*^{0}$e$^{+}\nu_{e}$ (1991)
Adamovich, M I, Alexandrov, Yu A, Antinori, Federico, Barberis, D, Beusch, Werner, Buys, A, ...
Preliminary results on charm production by 340 GeV/c $\pi^{-}$ on a target of Si and W (1990)
Grard, F, Adamovich, M I, Alexandrov, Yu A, Antinori, Federico, Bailly, J L, Barberis, D, ...
Charm hadroproduction with an impact parameter trigger (1990)
Forino, A, Gessaroli, R, Mazzanti, P, Quareni, A, Viaggi, F, Barberis, D, ...