In-Medium Effects on K Mesons in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present the transverse momentum spectra and rapidity distributions of and K in Ar+KCl reactions at a beam kinetic energy of 1.756 A GeV measured with the spectrometer HADES. The reconstructed K sample is characterized by good event statistics for a wide range in momentum and rapidity. We compare the experimental and K distributions to predictions by the IQMD model. The model calculations show that K at low tranverse momenta constitute a particularly well suited tool to investigate the kaon in-medium potential. Our K data suggest a strong repulsive in-medium K potential of about 40 MeV strength.Note:
- 10 pages, 10 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. C
- 25.75.Dw
- 25.75.-q
- heavy ion: scattering
- argon
- potassium: chlorine
- K0(S): hadroproduction
- pi-: hadroproduction
- transverse momentum: momentum spectrum
- rapidity spectrum
- K0 nucleus: potential
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