Ce mémoire présente différents aspects du programme expérimental WA89 consacré à la spectroscopie des hadrons charmés et étranges et charmés, en utilisant un faisceau d'hypérons, et le spectromètre Oméga du hall ouest au CERN. Après avoir abordé des éléments de la physique du charme, les méthodes utilisées pour identifier, en ligne (trigger) et hors ligne (filtre d'événements) les particules Λ0 issus de la désintégration du charme sont détaillées. L'identification des mésons Ds dans les données est ensuite exposé ainsi qu'une estimation de la section efficace de production des mésons étranges et charmés.

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We study particle production and its density evolution and equilibration in hot dense medium, such as hadronic gas after quark gluon plasma hadronization and relativistic electron positron photon plasma. For this study we use kinetic momentum integrated equations for particles density evolution with Lorentz invariant reaction rates. We extend these equations, used before for two-to-two particles reactions (1 + 2 ↔ 3 + 4), to the case of two-to-one and backward reactions (1 + 2 ↔ 3). One type of hot dense medium, which we study, is hadronic gas produced at quark gluon plasma hadronization in heavy ions collisions in SPS, RHIC and LHC experiments. We study hadron production at quark gluon plasma hadronization and their evolution in thermal hadronic gas phase. We consider non-equilibrium hadronization model, for which the yields of the light quark hadrons are defined by entropy conservation. Yields of hadrons containing heavier (strange, charm, bottom) quarks are mainly controlled by flavor conservation. We predict yields of charm and bottom hadrons within this non-equilibrium statistical hadronization model. Then we use this non-equilibrium hadronization as the initial condition in the study of hadronic kinetic phase. During this time period some hadronic resonances can be produced in lighter hadrons fusion. This reaction is opposite to resonance decay. Production of resonances is dominant over decay if there is non-equilibrium excess of decay products. Within this model we explain apparently contradictory experimental results reported in RHIC experiments: ∑(1385) yield is enhanced while ∧(1520) yield is suppressed compared to the statistical hadronization model expectation obtained without kinetic phase. We also predict Δ(1232) enhancement. The second type of plasma medium we consider is the relativistic electron position photon plasma (EP³) drop. This plasma is expected to be produced in decay of supercritical field created in ultrashort laser pulse. We study at what conditions this plasma drop is opaque for photons and therefore may reach thermal and chemical equilibrium. Further we consider muon and pion production in this plasma also as a diagnostic tool. Such heavy particles can be diagnostic tool to study the properties of EP³ plasma, similar to the role taken by heavy hadrons production in heavy ions collisions. Finally all these theoretical developments can be applied to begin a study of particles evolution in early universe in temperatures domain from QGP hadronization (160 MeV) to nucleosynthesis (0.1 MeV). The first results on pion equilibration are presented here.

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Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Adelaide, School of Chemistry and Physics, Discipline of Physics/Special Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, 2004? / "26 October 2004" Title from t.p. on PDF file; viewed 29 June 2005. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in a print form.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Adelaide, School of Chemistry and Physics, Discipline of Physics/Special Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, 2004? / "26 October 2004" Bibliography: p. 74-76. Also available online.

Using 3 fbˉ1 of proton-proton collisions, collected at centre-of-mass energies of √s = 7 and 8 TeV by the LHCb detector, several measurements of charmless B⁰s meson decays are made. A search is also performed for a highly suppressed B⁰ decay. First, the branching fraction of the B0⁰s→ ØØ decay is measured to be B(B⁰s→ ØØ) = (1.84 ± 0.05(stat) ± 0.07(syst) ± 0.11(fs=fd) ± 0.12(norm))X10ˉ⁵; where the third and fourth uncertainties arise from the fragmentation fraction fs/fd and the branching fraction of the normalisation mode. This represents a factor of five reduction in the statistical uncertainty compared to the previous best measurement. An upper limit on the branching fraction of the mode B⁰→ ØØ is set at B(B⁰→ ØØ) < 2.8 X 10ˉ⁸ (90% CL). This is a factor of seven improvement over the previous best measurement. An amplitude analysis of the B⁰s→ ØK+Kˉ decay is performed, wherein first observations of the decay modes B⁰s→ Øf´2(1525) and B⁰s→ ØØ(1680) are made. The branching fraction of the B⁰s→ Øf´2(1525) decay is measured to be B(B⁰s→ Øf´2 (1525)) = (1.63 ± 0.18(stat) ± 0.12(syst) ± 0.29(model) ± 0.17(norm)) X 10ˉ⁶; where the 'model' uncertainty arises from the choice of amplitude model. The longitudinal polarisation fraction of the decay B⁰s→ Øf´2(1525) is measured to be F0 = (86.6 ± 3.4 ± 0.8 ± 2.0 (model))%.

Neste trabalho, são discutidos modelos da hadrodinâmica quântica com aproximação de campo médio aplicados a estrelas de nêutrons. O modelo de Walecka define o ponto de partida para desenvolver o modelo de acoplamento derivativo ajustável. A presente dissertação visa a um estudo detalhado sobre a influência dos parâmetros do modelo ajustável no sistema, analisando seus limites, inclusive quando os parâmetros são iguais a zero ou infinito (modelo exponencial). Esta análise tem o propósito de estabelecer um conjunto de parâmetros que defina um modelo que esteja de acordo com as propriedades fenomenológicas tais como módulo de compressão da matéria nuclear, massa efetiva na saturação da matéria nuclear e também algumas propriedades estáticas globais das estrelas de nêutrons como, por exemplo, massa e raio. Estabelecido o modelo a ser considerado, a autora dessa dissertação introduz, como inovação, a compressibilidade hadrônica como função da densidade. Tradicionalmente, determinam-se propriedades da matéria apenas para a densidade de saturação.

o modelo de sacola difusa é um modelo hadrônico que possui aspectos tanto do modelo de sacola do MIT (conservação da energia e momentum, energia de vácuo da QCD) quanto dos modelos de potencial relativísticos (confinamento obtido através de um potencial). O modelo desenvolvido também é um modelo quiral, com a propriedade única de que o campo piônico é suprimido no interior da sacola por meio de um potencial escalar, e no entanto a simetria quiral é preservada. O modelo também é único em que podese controlar o quanto o campo piônico pode penetrar no interior da sacola (em todos os outros modelos, os píons ou entram livremente na sacola ou permanecem totalmente excluídos de seu interior). Nós calculamos as massas do octeto fundamental dos bárions levando em conta as correções de centro de massa, troca de um glúon e troca de um píon. Também calculamos a constante de acoplamento píon-núcleon, a carga axial do núcleon, assim como os raios de carga, momentos magnéticos e fatores de forma eletromagnéticos do próton e do neutron. Exceto pelos fatores de forma eletromagnéticos, a concordância com os resultados experimentais foi excelente, e os resultados indicam que o campo piônico é suprimido somente na vizinhança do centro da sacola.