$K^-/K^+$ ratios in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Details $K^-/K^+$ ratios in relativistic heavy-ion collisions $K^-/K^+$ ratios in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

1998-04-07

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9804013v1

Phys.Rev.C58:1698-1705,1998

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

RevTex, 10 pages, including 17 postscript figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.58.1698

We study $K^-/K^+$ ratios as a function of centrality (participant nucleon number), transverse mass ($m_t$), and rapidity, in heavy-ion collisions at beam energies between 1A and 2A GeV. We use the relativistic transport model that includes expicitly the strangeness degrees of freedom and consider two scenarios for kaon properties in dense matter, one with and one without medium modifications of their properties. In both scenarios, The $K^-/K^+$ ratio does not change very much with the centrality, while the $K/\pi$ and ${\bar K}/\pi$ ratios increase with increasing centrality. Significant differences are predicted, both in magnitudes and shapes, for the $m_t$ spectra and rapidity distributions of $K^-/K^+$ ratio. Experimental measurement of these ratios, currently under investigation by the FOPI, KaoS, E866, and E895 collaborations, will be useful in revealing the kaon in-medium properties.

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