The (K-,p) reaction on C12 at KEK

Details The (K-,p) reaction on C12 at KEK The (K-,p) reaction on C12 at KEK

2009-11-11

arxiv.org/abs/0911.2091v1

Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems 12 (2009) 414-418

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

5 pages, 3 figures, presented at the XXXIX International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2009), "Gold Sands", Gomel

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We study the (K-,p) reaction on C12 with a kaon beam of 1 GeV momentum, paying a special attention to the region of emitted protons having kinetic energy above 600 MeV, which was used to claim a deep kaon nucleus optical potential [1]. The experiment looks for fast protons emitted from the absorption of in flight kaons by nuclei, but in coincidence with at least one charged particle in the decay counters sandwiching the target. The analysis of the data is done in [1] assuming that the coincidence requirement does not change the shape of the final spectra. However our detailed calculations show that this assumption doesn't hold, and, thus, the final conclusion of this experiment is doubtful. We perform Monte Carlo simulation of this reaction. The advantage of our method with respect to Green's function method used in [1] is that it allows to account not only for quasi-elastic K- p scattering, but also for the other processes which contribute to the proton spectra. We investigated the effect of the multi-scatterings and of the K- absorptions by one and two nucleons (K- N --> pi Y and K- N N --> Y N) followed by the decay of the hyperon in pi N. We show that all these mechanisms allow us to explain reasonably well the observed spectrum with standard shallow kaon nucleus optical potential, obtained in chiral models. [1] T. Kishimoto et al., Prog. Theor. Phys. 118, 181 (2007).

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