The NA60 experiment has measured the production of muon pairs and charged particles in In+In collisions at a beam energy of 158 A GeV. For invariant dimuon masses below the phi, the spacetime averaged ρ spectral function was isolated by a novel procedure. It shows a strong broadening but essentially no shift in mass. The production of J/ψ was measured as a function of the collision centrality. As in previous experiments studying Pb+Pb collisions an anomalous suppression is observed, setting in at approximately 90 participant nucleons. Using the charged particles, the reaction plane was reconstructed. The elliptic flow of charged particles increases with pt showing a saturation for pt > 2 GeV/c. For the first time, azimuthal distributions for J/ψ are shown.

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FERRETTI, Alessandro;
2006-01-01

Abstract

The NA60 experiment has measured the production of muon pairs and charged particles in In+In collisions at a beam energy of 158 A GeV. For invariant dimuon masses below the phi, the spacetime averaged ρ spectral function was isolated by a novel procedure. It shows a strong broadening but essentially no shift in mass. The production of J/ψ was measured as a function of the collision centrality. As in previous experiments studying Pb+Pb collisions an anomalous suppression is observed, setting in at approximately 90 participant nucleons. Using the charged particles, the reaction plane was reconstructed. The elliptic flow of charged particles increases with pt showing a saturation for pt > 2 GeV/c. For the first time, azimuthal distributions for J/ψ are shown.
2006
SQM 2006 — INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STRANGENESS IN QUARK MATTER
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
26–31 MARCH 2006
32
S51
S60
A Förster; R Arnaldi; R Averbeck; K Banicz; J Castor; B Chaurand; C Cicalò; A Colla; P Cortese; S Damjanovic; A David; A De Falco; A Devaux; A Drees; L Ducroux; H En'yo; J Fargeix; A Ferretti; M Floris; A Förster; P Force; N Guettet; A Guichard; H Gulkanian; J M Heuser; M Keil; L Kluberg; C Lourenço; J Lozano; F Manso; A Masoni; P Martins; A Neves; H Ohnishi; C Oppedisano; P Parracho; Ph Pillot; G Puddu; E Radermacher; P Ramalhete; P Rosinsky; E Scomparin; J Seixas; S Serci; R Shahoyan; P Sonderegger; H J Specht; R Tieulent; G Usai; R Veenhof; H K Wöhri
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