Eur. Phys. J. C (2007) 49: 293-296
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0102-9

Regular Article – Experimental Physics

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

Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Ul. Radzikowskiego 152, 31342, Krakow, Poland

^* e-mail: Ewelina.Kornas@ifj.edu.pl

Received: 3 August 2006
Published online: 28 November 2006

Abstract

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.