We present preliminary results on the production of intermediate mass dimuons in 158 AGeV In-In collisions at the CERN SPS. NA38 and NA50 observed a strong excess in this region in S-U and Pb-Pb interactions with respect to the dimuon production rate expected from p-A data. Thanks to the use of a pixel vertex tracker, NA60 can separate the prompt dimuons from the pairs resulting from open charm decays and show that the excess dimuons are of prompt origin.

Intermediate mass dimuon production in indium-indium collisions at the CERN SPS

FERRETTI, Alessandro;
2005-01-01

Abstract

We present preliminary results on the production of intermediate mass dimuons in 158 AGeV In-In collisions at the CERN SPS. NA38 and NA50 observed a strong excess in this region in S-U and Pb-Pb interactions with respect to the dimuon production rate expected from p-A data. Thanks to the use of a pixel vertex tracker, NA60 can separate the prompt dimuons from the pairs resulting from open charm decays and show that the excess dimuons are of prompt origin.
2005
EPS International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (HEP-EPS 2005)
Lisbon, Portugal
21-27 Jul 2005
hep2005
131/1
131/4
R. Shahoian; R. Arnaldi; R. Averbeck; K. Banicz; J. Castor; B. Chaurand; C. Cicalo; A. Colla; P. Cortese; S. Damjanovic; A. David; A. De Falco; A. Devaux; A. Drees; L. Ducroux; H. Enyo; A. Ferretti; M. Floris; P. Force; A. Forster; N. Guettet; A. Guichard; H. Gulkanian; J. Heuser; M. Keil; L. Kluberg; C. Lourenco; J. Lozano; F. Manso; A. Masoni; P. Martins; A. Neves; H. Ohnishi; C. Oppedisano; P. Parracho; P. Pillot; G. Puddu; E. Radermacher; P. Ramalhete; P. Rosinsky; E. Scomparin; J. Seixas; S. Serci; P. Sonderegger; H.J. Specht; R. Tieulent; G. Usai; R. Veenhof; H.K. Woehri
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