The NA35 experiment was a

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experiment that took place in the North Area of the

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(SPS) at

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. It used a streamer chamber with comprehensive

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and electromagnetic

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. This experiment was used to observe the properties of nucleus-nucleus collisions at 60 and 200 GeV/nucleon, to understand the degree of stopping and

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, determine the energy densities achievable in those conditions, and to measure other related properties and quantities.Search for the quark-gluon plasma - The NA35 experiment at the CERN SPS
/ref> The first signature of

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was observed by the NA35 experiment in 1995. NA35_sulphur-gold_collision

The NA35 experiment was approved on 03 February 1983 and completed on 31 May 1999. It was succeeded by the

NA49 experiment The NA49 experiment ("North Area experiment 49") was a particle physics experiment that investigated the properties of quark–gluon plasma. The experiment's synonym was Ions/TPC-Hadrons. It took place in the North Area of the Super Proton Synchrot ...

. The spokesperson for the experiment was

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.Study of Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at the CERN SPS
/ref>(Ions/Streamer Ch.)
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Results from NA35

CERN-NA-35
experiment record on

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