Absorption of phi mesons in near-threshold proton-nucleus reactions
arXiv:0805.1606 · doi:10.1134/S1063778808110148
Abstract
In the framework of the nuclear spectral function approach for incoherent primary proton--nucleon and secondary pion--nucleon production processes we study the inclusive meson production in the interaction of 2.83 GeV protons with nuclei. In particular, the A-dependences of the absolute and relative meson yields are investigated within the different scenarios for its in-medium width as well as for the cross section ratio . Our model calculations take into account the acceptance window of the ANKE facility used in a recent experiment performed at COSY. They show that the pion--nucleon production channel contributes distinctly to the creation in heavy nuclei in the chosen kinematics and, hence, has to be taken into consideration on close examination of the dependences of the phi meson yields on the target mass number with the aim to get information on its width in the medium. They also demonstrate that the experimentally unknown ratio has a weak effect on the A-dependence of the relative meson production cross section at incident energy of present interest, whereas it is found to be appreciably sensitive to the phi in-medium width, which means that this relative observable can indeed be useful to help determine the above width from the direct comparison the results of our calculations with the future data from the respective ANKE-at-COSY experiment.
arXiv comment16 pages, 9 figures
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