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Energy dependence of proton and antiproton production in central Pb+Pb collisions from NA49

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Recent results of the NA49 collaboration on the production of p and p̄ at midrapidity in central Pb+Pb collisions in the beam energy range 20–158 A  GeV are presented. The preliminary results for the rapidity distributions of p and p̄ at 40 A  GeV are also discussed.

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Kornas, E. Energy dependence of proton and antiproton production in central Pb+Pb collisions from NA49. Eur. Phys. J. C 49, 293–296 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0102-9

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