Kaon modification in hot hadronic matter

Jul, 1991
11 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.A 536 (1992) 739-749
  • Published: 1992
Report number:
  • SUNY-NTG-91-30

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We calculate the momentum-dependent potentials (both real and imaginary parts) for K mesons propagating in hot hadronic matter. If the matter is sufficiently dulute, collisions are binary and we may use experimentally known scattering amplitudes. Therefore, our results are essentially model-independent. The meson-induced potential is about twice as large as that found previously using only the K ∗ (892) resonance. The interaction with nucleons is attractive for K − and further increases the potential, but is repulsive for K + , significantly compensating the mesonic contribution at break-up conditions at AGS. We also discuss the effect of the kaon potential on the width of φ meson decaying inside the matter. In particular, the K + emerges with momentum which is slightly larger than that of K − .
  • matter: hadronic
  • K: propagator
  • potential: momentum dependence
  • collective phenomena
  • K nucleon: interaction
  • interaction: K nucleon
  • pi K: interaction
  • interaction: pi K
  • rho(770)
  • omega(783)