First Measurement of Antikaon Phase-Space Distributions in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at Subthreshold Beam Energies

Abstract

Differential production cross sections of K${}^{-}$ and K${}^{+}$ mesons have been measured as function of the polar emission angle in Ni+Ni collisions at a beam energy of 1.93 AGeV. In near-central collisions, the spectral shapes and the widths of the rapidity distributions of K${}^{-}$ and K${}^{+}$ mesons are in agreement with the assumption of isotropic emission. In non-central collisions, the K${}^{-}$ and K${}^{+}$ rapidity distributions are broader than expected for a single thermal source. In this case, the polar angle distributions are strongly forward-backward peaked and the nonisotropic contribution to the total yield is about one third both for K${}^{+}$ and K${}^{-}$ mesons. The K${}^{-}$/K${}^{+}$ ratio is found to be about 0.03 independent of the centrality of the reaction. This value is significantly larger than predicted by microscopic transport calculations if in-medium modifications of K mesons are neglected.

16 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

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