Origin of subthreshold K+ production in heavy ion collisions

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Fuchs, C.;Wang, Z.;Sehn, L.;Faessler, Amand;Uma Maheswari, V.S.;Kosov, D.S.
Daniel Kosov
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We investigate the origin of subthreshold K+ production in heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies. In particular we study the influence of the pion induced K+ creation processes. We find that this channel shows a strong dependence on the size of the system, i.e., the number of participating nucleons as well as on the incident energy of the reaction. In an energy region between 1 and 2 GeV/nucleon the pion induced processes essentially contribute to the total yield and can even become dominant in reactions with a large number of participating nucleons. Thus we are able to reproduce recent measurements of the KaoS Collaboration for 1 GeV/nucleon Au on Au reactions adopting a realistic momentum dependent nuclear mean field.

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American Physical Society

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10.1103/PhysRevC.56.R606