@article{3073530,
    title = "Evidence for the onset of deconfinement and quest for the critical point by NA49 at the CERN SPS",
    author = "Melkumov, G.L. and Anticic, T. and Baatar, B. and Barna, D. and Bartke, J. and Beck, H. and Betev, L. and Bialkowska, H. and Blume, C. and Bogusz, M. and Boimska, B. and Book, J. and Botje, M. and Bunčić, P. and Cetner, T. and Christakoglou, P. and Chung, P. and Chvala, O. and Cramer, J.G. and Eckardt, V. and Fodor, Z. and Foka, P. and Friese, V. and Gaździcki, M. and Grebieszkow, K. and Höhne, C. and Kadija, K. and Karev, A. and Kolesnikov, V.I. and Kolleger, T. and Kowalski, M. and Kresan, D. and Laszlo, A. and Lacey, R. and van Leeuwen, M. and Mackowiak, M. and Makariev, M. and Malakhov, A.I. and Mateev, M. and Mitrovski, M. and Mrówczyński, S. and Nicolic, N. and Pálla, G. and Planagiotou, A.D. and Peryt, W. and Pluta, J. and Prindle, D. and Pühlhofer, F. and Renfordt, R. and Roland, C. and Roland, G. and Rybczyński, M. and Rybicki, A. and Sandoval, A. and Schmitz, N. and Schuster, T. and Seyboth, P. and Siklér, F. and Skrzypczak, E. and Slodkowski, M. and Stefanek, G. and Stock, R. and Ströbele, H. and Susa, T. and Szuba, M. and Utvić, M. and Varga, D. and Vassiliou, M. and Veres, G.I. and Vestergombi, G. and Vranić, D. and Wlodarczyk, Z. and Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A.",
    journal = "Physics of Atomic Nuclei",
    year = "2012",
    volume = "75",
    number = "5",
    pages = "556-566",
    issn = "1063-7788, 1562-692X",
    doi = "10.1134/S1063778812050158",
    abstract = "The NA49 results on hadron production obtained in PbPb collisions at SPS energies from 20 to 158 A GeV are shown and discussed as evidence for the onset of deconfinement. The primary measures are the pion yield, the kaon-to-pion ratio and the slope parameter of transverse mass distributions. The possible indication of the QCD critical point signatures was investigated in the event-by-event fluctuations of various observables such as the mean transverse momentum, particle multiplicity and azimuthal angle distributions as well as in the particle ratio fluctuations. The energy dependence of these observables was measured in central PbPb collisions in the full SPS energy range while for analysis of the system size dependence data from pp, CC, SiSi, and PbPb collisions at the top SPS energy were used. © 2012 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd."
}