Strange meson production in Al+Al collisions at 1.9 A GeV

  • P. Gasik
  • , K. Piasecki
  • , N. Herrmann
  • , Y. Leifels
  • , T. Matulewicz
  • , A. Andronic
  • , R. Averbeck
  • , V. Barret
  • , Z. Basrak
  • , N. Bastid
  • , M. L. Benabderrahmane
  • , M. Berger
  • , P. Buehler
  • , M. Cargnelli
  • , R. Čaplar
  • , P. Crochet
  • , O. Czerwiakowa
  • , I. Deppner
  • , P. Dupieux
  • , M. Dželalija
  • L. Fabbietti, Z. Fodor, I. Gašparić, Y. Grishkin, O. N. Hartmann, K. D. Hildenbrand, B. Hong, T. I. Kang, J. Kecskemeti, Y. J. Kim, M. Kirejczyk, M. Kiš, P. Koczon, R. Kotte, A. Lebedev, A. Le Fèvre, J. L. Liu, X. Lopez, V. Manko, J. Marton, R. Münzer, M. Petrovici, F. Rami, A. Reischl, W. Reisdorf, M. S. Ryu, P. Schmidt, A. Schüttauf, Z. Seres, B. Sikora, K. S. Sim, V. Simion, K. Siwek-Wilczyńska, V. Smolyankin, K. Suzuki, Z. Tymiński, P. Wagner, I. Weber, E. Widmann, K. Wiśniewski, Z. G. Xiao, I. Yushmanov, Y. Zhang, A. Zhilin, V. Zinyuk, J. Zmeskal

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Abstract

The production of K+, K- and ɸ (1020) mesons is studied in Al+Al collisions at a beam energy of 1.9A GeV which is close to or below the production threshold in NN reactions. Inverse slopes, anisotropy parameters, and total emission yields of K± mesons are obtained. A comparison of the ratio of kinetic energy distributions of K- and K+ mesons to the HSD transport model calculations suggests that the inclusion of the in-medium modifications of kaon properties is necessary to reproduce the ratio. The inverse slope and total yield of ɸ mesons are deduced. The contribution to K- production from ɸ meson decays is found to be [17 ± 3(stat)+2-7(syst)]%. The results are in line with the previous K± and ɸ data obtained for different colliding systems at similar incident beam energies.

Original languageEnglish
Article number177
JournalEuropean Physical Journal A
Volume52
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2016

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