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Article: Production of K+ and of K- mesons in heavy-ion collisions from 0.6A to 2.0A GeV incident energy
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ABSTRACT: This paper summarizes the yields and the emission patterns of K+ and of K- mesons measured in inclusive C+C, Ni+Ni, and Au+Au collisions at incident energies from 0.6A to 2.0A GeV using the Kaon Spectrometer KaoS at GSI. For Ni+Ni collisions at 1.5A and at 1.93A GeV as well as for Au+Au at 1.5A GeV, detailed results are presented of the multiplicities, of the inverse slope parameters, and of the anisotropies in the angular emission patterns as a function of the collision centrality. When comparing transport-model calculations to the measured K+ production yields, an agreement is only obtained for a soft nuclear equation of state (compression modulus KN≈200 MeV). The production of K- mesons at energies around 1A to 2A GeV is dominated by the strangeness-exchange reaction K-N⇌πY (Y=Λ,Σ) which leads to a coupling between the K- and K+ yields. However, both particle species show distinct differences in their emission patterns suggesting different freeze-out conditions for K+ and K- mesons.Phys. Rev. C. 02/2007; 75(2). -
Article: Production of K+ and of K- Mesons in Heavy-Ion Collisions from 0.6 to 2.0 AGeV Incident Energy
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ABSTRACT: This paper summarizes the yields and the emission patterns of K+ and of K- mesons measured in inclusive C+C, Ni+Ni and Au+Au collisions at incident energies from 0.6 AGeV to 2.0 AGeV using the Kaon Spectrometer KaoS at GSI. For Ni+Ni collisions at 1.5 and at 1.93 AGeV as well as for Au+Au at 1.5 AGeV detailed results of the multiplicities, of the inverse slope parameters of the energy distributions and of the anisotropies in the angular emission patterns as a function of the collision centrality are presented. When comparing transport-model calculations to the measured K+ production yields an agreement is only obtained for a soft nuclear equation of state (compression modulus KN ~ 200 MeV). The production of K- mesons at energies around 1 to 2 AGeV is dominated by the strangeness-exchange reaction K- N <-> pi Y (Y = Lambda, Sigma) which leads to a coupling between the K- and the K+ yields. However, both particle species show distinct differences in their emission patterns suggesting different freeze-out conditions for K+ and for K- mesons.02/2007;
Institutions
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2007
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Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
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