N. Schmitz

Inclusive production of protons, anti-protons and neutrons in p+p collisions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum (2009)

Anticic, T, Baatar, B, Bartke, J, Betev, L, Białkowska, H, Blume, C, ...

New data on the production of protons, anti-protons and neutrons in p+p interactions are presented. The data come from a sample of 4.8 million inelastic events obtained with the NA49 detector at the...

Inclusive production of protons, anti-protons and neutrons in p+p collisions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum (2009)

Baatar, B., Bartke, J., Betev, L., Białkowska, H., Blume, C., ...

New data on the production of protons, anti-protons and neutrons in p+p interactions are presented. The data come from a sample of 4.8 million inelastic events obtained with the NA49 detector at the...

Inclusive production of protons, anti-protons and neutrons in p+p collisions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum (2009)

Anticic, T, Baatar, B, Bartke, J, Betev, L, Białkowska, H, Blume, C, ...

New data on the production of protons, anti-protons and neutrons in p+p interactions are presented. The data come from a sample of 4.8 million inelastic events obtained with the NA49 detector at the...

TandEM: Titan and Enceladus mission (2009)

Coustenis, A., Atreya, S. K., Balint, T., Brown, R. H., Dougherty, M. K., Ferri, F., ...

TandEM was proposed as an L-class (large) mission in response to ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 Call, and accepted for further studies, with the goal of exploring Titan and Enceladus. The mission...

Characteristics of relapse after autologous stem-cell transplantation for follicular lymphoma: a long-term follow-up (2009)

Kornacker, M., Stumm, J., Pott, C., Dietrich, S., Süssmilch, S., Hensel, M., ...

Background: Pattern and outcome of disease recurrence after autologous stem-cell transplantation (autoSCT) for follicular lymphoma (FL) is not well known. Patients and methods: Relapse cases were...

System-Size Independence of Directed Flow Measured at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (2008)

Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...

We measure directed flow (ν_1) for charged particles in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at √S_(NN)=200 and 62.4 GeV, as a function of pseudorapidity (η), transverse momentum (p_t), and collision...

Beam-Energy and System-Size Dependence of Dynamical Net Charge Fluctuations (2008)

Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...

We present measurements of net charge fluctuations in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 19.6, 62.4, 130, and 200 GeV, $Cu + Cu$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 62.4, 200 GeV, and $p + p$...

Pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A and 30A GeV: Evidence for the onset of deconfinement (2008)

Eckardt, V., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P.

Results on charged pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A and 30A GeV are presented and compared to data at lower and higher energies. A rapid change of the energy dependence is...

High Transverse Momentum Hadron Spectra at sqrt{s_{NN}}=17.3 GeV in Pb+Pb and p+p Collisions (2008)

Alt, C., Eckardt, V., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Et Al.

Transverse momentum spectra up to 4.5 GeV/c around midrapidity of pi^{+/-}, p, pbar, K^{+/-} in Pb+Pb reactions were measured at sqrt{s_{NN}}=17.3 GeV by the CERN-NA49 experiment. The nuclear...

rho^0 Photoproduction in Ultra-Peripheral Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=200GeV (2008)

STAR Collaboration, Abelev, B. I., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Simon, F., Et Al.

Photoproduction reactions occur when the electromagnetic field of a relativistic heavy ion interacts with another heavy ion. The STAR collaboration presents a measurement of rho^0 and direct pi^+pi^-...

Enhanced strange baryon production in Au+Au collisions compared to p+p at sqrt{s_NN} = 200 GeV (2008)

STAR Collaboration, Abelev, B. I., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Simon, F., Et Al.

We report on the observed differences in production rates of strange and multi-strange baryons in Au+Au collisions at sqrts = 200 GeV compared to pp interactions at the same energy. The strange...

Centrality dependence of charged hadron and strange hadron elliptic flow from sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions (2008)

STAR Collaboration, Abelev, B. I., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Simon, F., Et Al.

We present STAR results on the elliptic flow v_2 of charged hadrons, strange and multi-strange particles from sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC. The detailed study of the centrality...

Spin alignment measurements of the $K^{*0}(892)$ and $\phi(1020)$ vector mesons in heavy ion collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=200 GeV (2008)

STAR Collaboration, Abelev, B. I., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Simon, F., Et Al.

We present the first spin alignment measurements for the $K^{*0}(892)$ and $\phi(1020)$ vector mesons produced at mid-rapidity with transverse momenta up to 5 GeV/c at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV at...

Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for inclusive jet production in p+p collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV (2008)

STAR Collaboration, Abelev, B. I., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Et Al.

We report a new STAR measurement of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry A_LL for inclusive jet production at mid-rapidity in polarized p+p collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 200...

Bose-Einstein correlations of pion pairs in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A, and 158A GeV (2008)

Alt, C., Eckardt, V., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Et Al.

Measurements of Bose-Einstein correlations of pion pairs in central Pb+Pb collisions were performed with the NA49 detector at the CERN SPS for beam energies of 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A, and 158A GeV....

Energy Dependence of Multiplicity Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions at 20 A to 158 A GeV (2008)

Alt, C., Eckardt, V., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Et Al.

Multiplicity fluctuations of positively, negatively and all charged hadrons in the forward hemisphere were studied in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A and 158A GeV. The multiplicity...

Energy dependence of Lambda and Xi production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A, and 158A GeV measured at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (2008)

Alt, C., Eckardt, V., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Et Al.

Results on $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}}$, $\Xi^{-}$, and $\bar{\Xi}^{+}$ production in central Pb+Pb reactions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A, and 158A GeV are presented. The energy dependence of transverse...

Hadronic resonance production in $d$+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV measured at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (2008)

STAR Collaboration, Abelev, B. I., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Simon, F., Et Al.

We present the first measurements of the $\rho(770)^0$, $K^*$(892), $\Delta$(1232)$^{++}$, $\Sigma$(1385), and $\Lambda$(1520) resonances in $d$+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV,...

Energy dependence of phi meson production in central Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt(s_nn) = 6 to 17 GeV (2008)

Alt, C., Eckardt, V., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Et Al.

Phi meson production is studied by the NA49 Collaboration in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A and 158A GeV beam energy. The data are compared with measurements at lower and higher...

Forward Neutral Pion Transverse Single Spin Asymmetries in p+p Collisions at \sqrt{s}=200 GeV (2008)

STAR Collaboration, Abelev, B. I., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Simon, F., Et Al.

We report precision measurements of the Feynman-x dependence, and first measurements of the transverse momentum dependence, of transverse single spin asymmetries for the production of \pi^0 mesons...

System-size independence of directed flow at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (2008)

STAR Collaboration, Abelev, B. I., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Simon, F., Et Al.

We measure directed flow ($v_1$) for charged particles in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} =$ 200 GeV and 62.4 GeV, as a function of pseudorapidity ($\eta$), transverse momentum ($p_t$)...

Dose-escalated CHOEP for the treatment of young patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: II. Results of the randomized high-CHOEP trial of the German High-Grade Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Study Group (DSHNHL) (2008)

Pfreundschuh, M., Zwick, C., Zeynalova, S., Dührsen, U., Vrieling, T., ...

Background: The addition of etoposide to combination chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone [etoposide to combination chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide,...

Energy Dependence of Multiplicity Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions (2007)

Alt, C., Eckardt, V., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Et Al.

The energy dependence of multiplicity fluctuations was studied for the most central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A and 158A GeV by the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS. The multiplicity...

Anisotropic Flow of Strange Particles at SPS (2007)

Alt, C., Eckardt, V., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Et Al.

The elliptic flow for Lambda hyperons and K0s mesons was measured by the NA49 experiment in semicentral Pb+Pb collisions at 158A GeV. The standard method of correlating particles with an event plane...

Two-particle correlations on transverse momentum and momentum dissipation in Au–Au collisions at /sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV (2007)

STAR Collaboration, Adams, J., Eckardt, V., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P., Et Al.

Measurements of two-particle correlations on transverse momentum p_t for Au–Au collisions at /sqrt{s_{NN}}= 130 GeV are presented. Significant large-momentum-scale correlations are observed for...

Incidence and risk factors of central nervous system recurrence in aggressive lymphoma--a survey of 1693 patients treated in protocols of the German High-Grade Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Study Group (DSHNHL) (2007)

Boehme, V, Zeynalova, S, Kloess, M, Loeffler, M, Kaiser, U, Pfreundschuh, M, ...

Background: Central nervous system (CNS) relapse is a devastating and usually fatal complication of aggressive lymphoma. The extent of the disease, the proliferation rate and the sites of extranodal...

RAVON A Robust Autonomous Vehicle for Off-road Navigation (2006)

H. Schäfer, M. Proetzsch, T. Braun, J. Koch, N. Schmitz, K. Berns

This paper introduces the autonomous outdoor robot RAVON 1 (see Figure 1) which is developed at Kaiserslautern University of Technology. The vehicle is used as a testbed to investigate...

Incidence and risk factors of central nervous system recurrence in aggressive lymphoma--a survey of 1693 patients treated in protocols of the German High-Grade Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Study Group (DSHNHL) (2006)

Boehme, V., Zeynalova, S., Kloess, M., Loeffler, M., Kaiser, U., Pfreundschuh, M., ...

Background: Central nervous system (CNS) relapse is a devastating and usually fatal complication of aggressive lymphoma. The extent of the disease, the proliferation rate and the sites of extranodal...

Incidence and risk factors of central nervous system recurrence in aggressive lymphoma--a survey of 1693 patients treated in protocols of the German High-Grade Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Study Group (DSHNHL) (2006)

Boehme, V., Zeynalova, S., Kloess, M., Loeffler, M., Kaiser, U., Pfreundschuh, M., ...

Background: Central nervous system (CNS) relapse is a devastating and usually fatal complication of aggressive lymphoma. The extent of the disease, the proliferation rate and the sites of extranodal...

Auf der Spur des künstlichen Urknalls (2005)

Eckardt, V., Schmitz, N., Seyboth, P.

Schießt ein Beschleuniger schwere Atomkerne mit hoher Energie aufeinander, dann könnte sich die Kernmaterie in quasi-freie Quarks und Gluonen auflösen. Nach heutigen Vorstellungen bestand der...

Strangeness from 20 AGeV to 158 AGeV (2003)

Friese, V, Alt, C, Anticic, T, Baatar, B, Barna, D, Bartke, Jerzy, ...

New results from the energy scan programme of NA49, in particular kaon production at 30 AGeV and phi production at 40 and 80 AGeV are presented. The K+/pi+ ratio shows a pronounced maximum at 30...

Search for Deconfinement in NA49 at the CERN SPS (2002)

Seyboth, P, Afanasiev, S V, Anticic, T, Barna, D, Bartke, Jerzy, Barton, R A, ...

Experiment NA49 at the Cern SPS uses a large acceptance detector for a systematic study of particle yields and correlations in nucleus-nucleus, nucleon-nucleus and nucleon-nucleon collisions....

Energy Dependence of Pion and Kaon Production in Central Pb+Pb Collisions (2002)

Afanasiev, S V, Anticic, T, Barna, D, Bartke, Jerzy, Barton, R A, Behler, M, ...

Results on the energy dependence of charged pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 40, 80 and 158 A GeV are presented and compared with data at lower and higher energies. The mean...

Role of allogeneic stem cell transplantation in relapsed or refractory Hodgkin's disease (2002)

Sureda, A., Schmitz, N.

Little information is available regarding allogeneic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) and Hodgkin's disease (HD). Autologous stem cell transplantation (autoSCT) is usually preferred to alloSCT due...

Dose escalation of cytotoxic drugs using haematopoietic growth factors: A randomized trial to determine the magnitude of increase provided by GM-CSF (2001)

Pfreundschuh, M., Hasenclever, D., Loeffler, M., Ehninger, G., Schmitz, N., Kirchner, H., ...

Background The magnitude of chemotherapy dose escalation made possible by the use of recombinant haematopoietic growth factors has not been quantified in a randomized trial Patients and methods...

Hadronic Expansion Dynamics in Central Pb+Pb Collisions at 158 GeV per Nucleon (2000)

Appelshäuser, H, Bächler, J, Bailey, S J, Barnby, L S, Bartke, Jerzy, Barton, R A, ...

Two-particle correlation functions of negative hadrons over wide phase space, and transverse mass spectra of negative hadrons and deuterons near mid-rapidity have been measured in central Pb+Pb...

Stem-cell transplantation for chronic lymphocytic leukemia: The 1999 perspective (2000)

Dreger, P., Michallet, M., Schmitz, N.

Background: The use of myeloablative intensive therapy followed by autologous or allogeneic stem-cell transplantation (SCT) for treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has largely increased...

Two-proton correlations from 158 A GeV Pb + Pb central collisions (1999)

Appelshäuser, H, Bächler, J, Bailey, S J, Barna, D, Barnby, L S, Bartke, Jerzy, ...

The two-proton correlation function at midrapidity from Pb+Pb central collisions at 158 AGeV has been measured by the NA49 experiment. The results are compared to model predictions from static...

The NA49 large acceptance hadron detector (1999)

Afanasiev, S V, Alber, T, Appelshäuser, H, Bächler, J, Barna, D, Barnby, L S, ...

The NA49 detector is a wide acceptance spectrometer for the study of hadron production in p+p, p+A, and A+A collisions at the CERN SPS. The main components are 4 large volume TPCs for tracking and...

Charged particle production in proton-, deuteron-, oxygen- and sulphur-nucleus collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon (1998)

Alber, T, Appelshäuser, H, Bächler, J, Bartke, Jerzy, Bialkowska, H, Bloomer, M A, ...

The transverse momentum and rapidity distributions of net protons and negatively charged hadrons have been measured for minimum bias proton-nucleus and deuteron-gold interactions, as well as central...

Directed and Elliptic Flow in 158 GeV/Nucleon Pb + Pb Collisions (1997)

Appelshäuser, H, Bächler, J, Bailey, S J, Barnby, L S, Bartke, J, Barton, R A, ...

The directed and elliptic flow of protons and charged pions has been observed from the semi-central collisions of a 158 GeV/nucleon Pb beam with a Pb target. The rapidity and transverse momentum...

A measurement of the holographic minimum-observable beam branching ratio in the Fermilab 15-foot bubble chamber (1997)

Aderholz, Michael, Aggarwal, M M, Akbari, H, Allport, P P, Badyal, S K, Ballagh, H C, ...

Holography has been used successfully in combination with conventional optics for the first time in a large cryogenic bubble chamber, the 15-Foot Bubble Chamber at Fermilab, during a physics run. The...

Sequential high-dose therapy and autologous stem cell transplantation for treatment of mantle cell lymphoma (1997)

Dreger, P., Von Neuhoff, N., Kuse, R., Sonnen, R., Glass, B., Uharek, L., ...

Background: Mantle cell lymphoma (MC) is not curable with conventional chemotherapy. To improve the prognosis of patients with this disease, we prospectively studied an intensive sequential therapy...

Nuclear Attenuation of Fast Hadrons Produced in Charged-Current Neutrino and Antineutrino Interactions in Neon (1996)

Burkot, W, Coghen, T, Czyzewski, J, Wittek, W, Aderholz, Michael, Guy, J, ...

The production of hadrons in charged-current (anti)neutrino interactions is studied with the bubble chamber BEBC exposed ot the CERN (anti)neutrino wide-band beam. Fast-hadron production in a neon...

Effective mobilisation of peripheral blood progenitor cells with 'Dexa-BEAM' and G-CSF: timing of harvesting and composition of the leukapheresis product.

Dreger, P., Marquardt, P., Haferlach, T., Jacobs, S., Mülverstedt, T., Eckstein, V., ...

The mini-BEAM regimen (BCNU, etoposide, cytarabine, melphalan) and its modification 'Dexa-BEAM' are effective salvage protocols for relapsed Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Since many...

Early stem cell transplantation for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: a chance for cure?

Dreger, P., Von Neuhoff, N., Kuse, R., Sonnen, R., Glass, B., Uharek, L., ...

B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) cannot be cured by conventional therapy. To improve the prognosis of patients with CLL, we have designed a sequential treatment strategy that comprises...