Phys. Rev. C 60, 064601 (1999) [14 pages]

Positron-electron pairs produced in heavy-ion collisions

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I. Ahmad et al.
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Received 25 November 1998; published 26 October 1999

The production of positron-electron pairs in collisions of 238U+232Th at 5.95 MeV/nucleon, and of 238U+181Ta at 5.95, 6.1, and 6.3 MeV/nucleon, has been studied with the APEX spectrometer at Argonne National Laboratory. Several analyses have been performed to search for sharp structures in sum-energy spectra for positron-electron pairs. Such features have been reported in previous experiments. No statistically convincing evidence for such behavior is observed in the present data.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.60.064601
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.60.064601
PACS: 25.70.Bc, 14.80.-j

* Present address: Physics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory P. O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831.
Present address: Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications, P.O. Box 17214, Athens 10024, Greece.
Present address: Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439.
§ Present address: Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey U2 6RW, U.K.
** Present address: Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, Bloomington, IN 47401.

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