Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2000-09-06
Phys.Rev.C62:061903,2000
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
5 pages, Revtex, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.62.061903
We compare relativistic transport model calculations to recent data on the sideward flow of neutral strange K^0_s mesons for Au+Au collisions at 6 AGeV. A soft nuclear equation of state is found to describe very well the positive proton flow data measured in the same experiment. In the absence of kaon potential, the K^0 flow pattern is similar to that of protons. The kaon flow becomes negative if a repulsive kaon potential determined from the impulse approximation is introduced. However, this potential underestimates the data which exhibits larger antiflow. An excellent agreement with the data is obtained when a relativistic scalar-vector kaon potential, that has stronger density dependence, is used. We further find that the transverse momentum dependence of directed and elliptic flow is quite sensitive to the kaon potential in dense matter.
Ko Che Ming
Lin Zi-wei
Pal Subrata
Zhang Bin
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