INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS PUBLISHING JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G: NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 27 (2001) 367–374 www.iop.org/Journals/jg PII: S0954-3899(01)19434-X Production of multi-strange hyperons and strange resonances in the NA49 experiment R A Barton for the NA49 Collaboration: S V Afanasiev 1 , T Anticic 2 ,JB¨ achler 3,4 , D Barna 5 , L S Barnby 6 , J Bartke 7 , R A Barton 6 , L Betev 8 , H Bialkowska 9 , A Billmeier 10 , C Blume 4 , C O Blyth 6 , B Boimska 9 , M Botje 11 , J Bracinik 12 , F P Brady 13 , R Bramm 10 , R Brun 3 , P Bunˇ ci´ c 3,10 , L Carr 14 , D Cebra 13 , G E Cooper 15 , J G Cramer 14 , P Csat ´ o 5 , V Eckardt 16 , F Eckhardt 17 , D Ferenc 13 , P Filip 16 , H G Fischer 3 , Z Fodor 5 , P Foka 10 , P Freund 16 , V Friese 17 , J Ftacnik 12 ,JG´ al 5 , M Ga´ zdzicki 10 , G Georgopoulos 18 , E Gladysz 7 , S Hegyi 5 , V Hlinka 12 ,CH¨ ohne 17 , G Igo 8 , M Ivanov 12 , P Jacobs 15 , R Janik 12 , P G Jones 6 , K Kadija 2,16 , V I Kolesnikov 1 , T Kollegger 10 , M Kowalski 7 , M van Leeuwen 11 , P L´ evai 5 , A I Malakhov 1 , S Margetis 19 , C Markert 4 , B W Mayes 20 , G L Melkumov 1 , A Mischke 4 , J Moln ´ ar 5 , J M Nelson 6 , G Odyniec 15 ,GP´ alla 5 , A D Panagiotou 18 , A Petridis 18 , M Pikna 12 , L Pinsky 20 , A M Poskanzer 15 , D J Prindle 14 ,FP¨ uhlhofer 17 , J G Reid 14 , R Renfordt 10 , W Retyk 21 , H G Ritter 15 ,DR¨ ohrich 10,22 , C Roland 4 , G Roland 10 , A Rybicki 7 , T Sammer 16 , A Sandoval 4 , H Sann 4 , E Sch ¨ afer 16 , N Schmitz 16 , P Seyboth 16 , F Sikl´ er 3,5 , B Sitar 12 , E Skrzypczak 21 , R Snellings 15 , G T A Squier 6 , R Stock 10 , P Strmen 12 , H Str ¨ obele 10 , T Susa 2 , I Szarka 12 , I Szentp´ etery 5 , J Sziklai 5 , M Toy 8,15 , T A Trainor 14 , S Trentalange 8 , D Varga 5 , M Vassiliou 18 , G I Veres 5 , G Vesztergombi 5 , S Voloshin 15 , D Vrani´ c 3 , F Wang 15 , D D Weerasundara 14 , S Wenig 3 , A Wetzler 10 , C Whitten 8 , N Xu 15 , T A Yates 6 , I K Yoo 17 and J Zim ´ anyi 5 1 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia 2 Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia 3 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 4 Gesellschaft f ¨ ur Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany 5 KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary 6 Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK 7 Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Poland 8 University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA 9 Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland 10 Fachbereich Physik der Universit¨ at, Frankfurt, Germany 11 NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands 12 Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia 13 University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA 14 Nuclear Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 15 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 16 Max-Planck-Institut f ¨ ur Physik, Munich, Germany 17 Fachbereich Physik der Universit¨ at, Marburg, Germany 18 Department of Physics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 19 Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA 20 University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA 0954-3899/01/030367+08$30.00 © 2001 IOP Publishing Ltd Printed in the UK 367