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Measurement of charged pions in 12C + 12C collisions at 1 A GeV and 2 A GeV with HADES

  • G. Agakishiev
  • , C. Agodi
  • , A. Balanda
  • , G. Bellia
  • , D. Belver
  • , A. Belyaev
  • , J. Bielcik
  • , A. Blanco
  • , A. Bortolotti
  • , J. L. Boyard
  • , P. Braun-Munzinger
  • , P. Cabanelas
  • , S. Chernenko
  • , T. Christ
  • , R. Coniglione
  • , M. Destefanis
  • , J. Díaz
  • , F. Dohrmann
  • , I. Durán
  • , A. Dybczak
  • T. Eberl, L. Fabbietti, O. Fateev, R. Ferreira-Marques, P. Finocchiaro, P. Fonte, J. Friese, I. Fröhlich, T. Galatyuk, J. A. Garzón, R. Gernhäuser, A. Gil, C. Gilardi, M. Golubeva, D. González-Díaz, E. Grosse, F. Guber, M. Heilmann, T. Heinz, T. Hennino, R. Holzmann, A. Ierusalimov, I. Iori, A. Ivashkin, M. Jurkovic, B. Kämpfer, K. Kanaki, T. Karavicheva, D. Kirschner, I. Koenig, W. Koenig, B. W. Kolb, R. Kotte, A. Kozuch, A. Krása, F. Křížek, R. Krücken, W. Kühn, A. Kugler, A. Kurepin, J. Lamas-Valverde, S. Lang, J. S. Lange, K. Lapidus, L. Lopes, M. Lorenz, L. Maier, C. Maiolino, A. Mangiarotti, J. Marín, J. Markert, V. Metag, B. Michalska, J. Michel, E. Morinière, J. Mousa, M. Münch, C. Müntz, L. Naumann, R. Novotny, J. Otwinowski, Y. C. Pachmayer, M. Palka, Y. Parpottas, V. Pechenov, O. Pechenova, T. Pérez Cavalcanti, P. Piattelli, J. Pietraszko, V. Pospíšil, W. Przygoda, B. Ramstein, A. Reshetin, M. Roy-Stephan, A. Rustamov, A. Sadovsky, B. Sailer, P. Salabura, P. Sapienza, A. Schmah, C. Schroeder, E. Schwab, R. S. Simon, Yu G. Sobolev, S. Spataro, B. Spruck, H. Ströbele, J. Stroth, C. Sturm, M. Sudol, A. Tarantola, K. Teilab, P. Tlustý, M. Traxler, R. Trebacz, H. Tsertos, V. Wagner, M. Weber, M. Wisniowski, T. Wojcik, J. Wüstenfeld, S. Yurevich, Y. Zanevsky, P. Zhou, P. Zumbruch
  • Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
  • Laboratori Nazionali Del Sud
  • Jagiellonian University
  • Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Zawodowa
  • Università di Catania
  • Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
  • Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research
  • GSI Helmholtz Center
  • LIP-Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas
  • INFN Sezione di Milano
  • CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris 11
  • Technical University of Munich
  • University of Valencia
  • HelmholtzZentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
  • University of Coimbra
  • Coimbra Polytechnic - ISEC
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
  • Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Milan
  • Nuclear Physics Institute of the Cas
  • University of Cyprus

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Abstract

We present the results of a study of charged-pion production in 12C + 12C collisions at incident beam energies of 1A GeV and 2A GeV using the HADES spectrometer at GSI. The main emphasis of the HADES program is on the dielectron signal from the early phase of the collision. Here, however, we discuss the data with respect to the emission of charged hadrons, specifically the production of π± mesons, which are related to neutral pions representing a dominant contribution to the dielectron yield. We have performed the first large-angular-range measurement of the distribution of π± mesons for the 12C + 12C collision system covering a fairly large rapidity interval. The pion yields, transverse-mass and angular distributions are compared with calculations done within a transport model, as well as with existing data from other experiments. The anisotropy of pion production is systematically analyzed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)45-59
Number of pages15
JournalEuropean Physical Journal A
Volume40
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2009

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