Subthreshold production of kaons and antikaons in nucleus-nucleus collisions at equivalent beam energies

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作者
Barth, R
Senger, P
Ahner, W
Beckerle, P
Bormann, C
Brill, D
Cieslak, M
Debowski, M
Grosse, E
Koczon, P
Kohlmeyer, B
Miskowiec, D
Muntz, C
Oeschler, H
Puhlhofer, F
Schwab, E
Schicker, R
Shin, Y
Speer, J
Strobele, H
Sturm, C
Volkel, K
Wagner, A
Walus, W
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[1] TH DARMSTADT,D-64289 DARMSTADT,GERMANY
[2] UNIV FRANKFURT,D-60325 FRANKFURT,GERMANY
[3] UNIV MARBURG,D-35037 MARBURG,GERMANY
[4] JAGIELLONIAN UNIV,PL-30059 KRAKOW,POLAND
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4007
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
Kaon production has been studied in Ni + Ni collisions at beam energies of 0.8-1.8 GeV/nucleon with the kaon spectrometer at GSI. The K+ production cross section increases as E-beam(5.3+/-0.2). Both K+ and K- mesons are predominantly produced in central collisions. The K-/K+ ratio measured at equivalent beam energies below the respective particle production threshold is considerably larger for Ni + Ni collisions than for nucleon-nucleon collisions near threshold. This is evidence for an enhanced K- production in the nuclear medium.
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