Subthreshold Ξ- Production in collisions of p (3.5GeV)+Nb
Date
2015Author
Krücken, R.Müntzer, R.
Agakishiev, G.
Arnold, O.
Bałanda, A.
Belver, D.
Belyaev, A. V.
Berger-Chen, J. C.
Blanco, A.
Böhmer, M.
Boyard, J. L.
Cabanelas, Pablo
Chernenko, S.
Dybczak, A.
Epple, E.
Fabbietti, L.
Fateev, O. V.
Finocchiaro, P.
Fonte, P.
Friese, J.
Fröhlich, I.
Galatyuk, T.
Garzón, J. A.
Gernhäuser, R.
Göbel, K.
Golubeva, M.
González-Díaz, D.
Guber, F.
Gumberidze, M.
Heinz, T.
Hennino, T.
Holzmann, R.
Ierusalimov, A.
Iori, I.
Ivashkin, A.
Jurkovic, M.
Kämpfer, B.
Karavicheva, T.
Koenig, I.
Koenig, W.
Kolb, B. W.
Kornakov, G.
Kotte, R.
Krása, Antonín
Krizek, F.
Kuc, H.
Kühn, W.
Kugler, A.
Kurepin, A.
Ladygin, V.
Lalik, R.
Lang, S.
Lapidus, K.
Lebedev, A.
Liu, T.
Lopes, L.
Lorenz, M.
Maier, L.
Mangiarotti, A.
Markert, J.
Metag, V.
Michalska, B.
Michel, J.
Müntz, C.
Naumann, L.
Pachmayer, Y. C.
Palka, M.
Parpottas, Yiannis
Pechenov, V.
Pechenova, O.
Pietraszko, J.
Przygoda, W.
Ramstein, B.
Reshetin, A.
Rustamov, A.
Sadovsky, A.
Salabura, P.
Schmah, A.
Schwab, E.
Siebenson, J.
Sobolev, Yu G.
Spataro, S.
Spruck, B.
Ströbele, H.
Stroth, J.
Sturm, C.
Tarantola, A.
Teilab, K.
Tlusty, P.
Traxler, M.
Trebacz, R.
Tsertos, Haralambos
Vasiliev, T.
Wagner, V.
Weber, M.
Wendisch, C.
Wüstenfeld, J.
Yurevich, S.
Zanevsky, Y. V.
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Physical Review LettersVolume
114Issue
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Results on the production of the double strange cascade hyperon Ξ- are reported for collisions of p(3.5GeV)+Nb, studied with the High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES) at SIS18 at GSI Helmholtzzentrum for Heavy-Ion Research, Darmstadt. For the first time, subthreshold Ξ- production is observed in proton-nucleus interactions. Assuming a Ξ- phase-space distribution similar to that of Λ hyperons, the production probability amounts to PΞ-=[2.0±0.4(stat)±0.3(norm)±0.6(syst)]×10-4 resulting in a Ξ-/(Λ+Σ0) ratio of PΞ-/PΛ+Σ0=[1.2±0.3(stat)±0.4(syst)]×10-2. Available model predictions are significantly lower than the measured Ξ- yield. © 2015 American Physical Society.