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Blast-wave analysis of strange particle mT spectra in Pb–Pb collisions at the SPS
The transverse mass spectra of high statistics, high purity samples of $K^{0}_{S}, \Lambda, \Xi and \Omega$ particles produced in Pb–Pb collisions at SPS energy have been studied in the framework of the blast-wave model. The dependence of the freezeout parameters on particle species and event centrality is discussed. Results at 40 A GeV/c are presented here for the first time
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Centrality dependence of the expansion dynamics in Pb Pb collisions at 158-A-GeV/c
Two-particle correlation functions of negatively charged hadrons from Pb-Pb collisions at 158?GeV?c-1/nucleon have been measured by the WA97 experiment at the CERN SPS. A Coulomb correction procedure that assumes an expanding source has been implemented. Within the framework of an expanding thermalized source model the size and dynamical state of the collision fireball at freeze-out have been reconstructed as a function of the centrality of the collision. Less central collisions exhibit a different dynamics than central ones: both transverse and longitudinal expansion velocities are slower, the expansion duration is shorter and the system freezes out, showing smaller dimensions and higher temperature.
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Latest results from the NA57 experiment
The NA57 experiment at the CERN SPS has measured the production of strange and multi‐strange particles in Pb‐Pb (and p‐Be) collisions at mid‐rapidity. The collective dynamics of the collision is studied in the transverse and longitudinal directions as a function of centrality and beam momentum and analysed on the basis of hydrodynamical models. Central‐to‐peripheral nuclear modification factors at 158 A GeV/c are presented and compared with other measurements and theory.
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Study of J / ψ production at central rapidity with the ALICE experiment at LHC
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Search for pentaquarks in WA97 experiment at CERN
The WA97 experiment at CERN has collected data aiming to study strangeness production in heavy ion collisions at 158 A GeV/c; p‐Be data were also taken as reference data. Here we show some results of an analysis of these p‐Be data in order to check for evidence of a recently claimed pentaquark state.
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Heavy flavours in ALICE
The ALICE experiment, currently in the commissioning phase, will study nucleus?nucleus and proton?proton collisions at the CERN large hadron collider (LHC). We review the ALICE heavy-flavour physics program and present a selection of results on the expected performance.
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The simulation of resistive plate chambers in avalanche mode: charge spectra and efficiency
A model to simulate the avalanche formation process and the induced signal in a Resistive Plate Chamber is presented. A first investigation of the effects of various parameters on the performance of this detector is reported.
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Search for resonances in the dijet mass spectrum from 7 TeV pp collisions at CMS
A search for narrow resonances with a mass of at least 1 TeV in the dijet mass spectrum is performed using pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1 fb(-1), collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. No resonances are observed. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are presented on the product of the resonance cross section, branching fraction into dijets, and acceptance, separately for decays into quark-quark, quark-gluon, and gluon-gluon pairs. The data exclude new particles predicted in the following models at the 95% confidence level: string resonances with mass less than 4.00 TeV, E-6 diquarks with mass less than 3.52 TeV, excited quarks with mass less than 2.49 TeV, axigluons and colorons with mass less than 2.47 TeV, and W' bosons with mass less than 1.51 TeV. These results extend previous exclusions from the dijet mass search technique. (C) 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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The resistive plate chambers for CMS and their simulation
In this paper some results obtained by the CMS Resistive Plate Chamber collaboration during its five years long period of research and development are reported. The importance of the simulation in the design of the Resistive Plate Chambers for CMS is stressed.
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The CMS Event Builder
The data acquisition system of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider will employ an event builder which will combine data from about 500 data sources into full events at an aggregate throughput of 100 GByte/s. Several architectures and switch technologies have been evaluated for the DAQ Technical Design Report by measurements with test benches and by simulation. 
This paper describes studies of an EVB test-bench based on 64 PCs acting as data sources and data consumers and employing both Gigabit Ethernet and Myrinet technologies as the interconnect. In the case of Ethernet, protocols based on Layer-2 frames and on TCP/IP are evaluated. Results from ongoing studies, including measurements on throughput and scaling are presented. 
The architecture of the baseline CMS event builder will be outlined. The event builder is organised into two stages with intelligent buffers in between. The first stage contains 64 switches performing a first level of data concentration by building super-fragments from fragments of 8 data sources. The second stage combines the 64 super-fragments into full events. This architecture allows installation of the second stage of the event builder in steps, with the overall throughput scaling linearly with the number of switches in the second stage. Possible implementations of the components of the event builder are discussed and the expected performance of the full event builder is outlined.
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RPC /gamma sensitivity simulation