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2002
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http://hdl.handle.net/2128/10724 in citations.
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K+ production in proton-nucleus reactions and the role of momentum-dependent potentials
K+ production in proton-nucleus reactions and the role of momentum-dependent potentials
The production of K+-mesons in proton-nucleus collisions from 1.0 to 2.5 GeV is analyzed with respect to one-step nucleon-nucleon (NN --> NYK+) and two-step Delta-nucleon (DeltaN --> K+YN) or pion-nucleon (piN --> K+Y) production channels on the basis of a coupled-channel transport approach...
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Personal Name(s): | Rudy, Z. |
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Cassing, W. / Jarczyk, L. / Kamys, B. / Kulessa, P. | |
Contributing Institute: |
Institut 2 (Experimentelle Kernphysik II); IKP-E-2 |
Published in: | The @European physical journal / A, 15 (2002) S. 303 - 314 |
Imprint: |
Berlin
Springer
2002
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Physical Description: |
303 - 314 |
DOI: |
10.1140/epja/i2002-10037-5 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Physik der Hadronen |
Series Title: |
European Physical Journal A
15 |
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Link: |
OpenAccess OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2002-10037-5 in citations.
The production of K+-mesons in proton-nucleus collisions from 1.0 to 2.5 GeV is analyzed with respect to one-step nucleon-nucleon (NN --> NYK+) and two-step Delta-nucleon (DeltaN --> K+YN) or pion-nucleon (piN --> K+Y) production channels on the basis of a coupled-channel transport approach (CBUU) including the kaon final-state interactions. The influence of momentum-dependent potentials for the nucleon, hyperon and kaon in the final state axe studied as well as the importance of K+ elastic rescattering in the target nucleus. The transport calculations are compared to the experimental K+ spectra taken at LBL Berkeley, SATURNE, CELSIUS, GSI and COSY-Julich. It is found that the momentum-dependent baryon potentials affect the excitation function of the K+ cross-section, at low bombarding energies of similar to 1.0 GeV the attractive baryon potentials in the final state lead to a relative enhancement of the kaon yield, whereas the net repulsive potential at bombarding energies similar to 2 GeV causes a decrease of the K+ cross-section. Furthermore, it is pointed out that especially the K+ spectra at low momenta (or kinetic energy T-K) allow to determine the in-medium K+ potential almost model independently due to a relative shift of the K+ spectra in kinetic energy that arises from the acceleration of the kaons when propagating out of the nuclear medium to free space, i.e. converting the potential energy to the kinetic energy of the free kaon. |