Medium Effects in Kaon and Antikaon Production in Nuclear Collisions at Subthreshold Beam Energies

Abstract

Production cross sections of K${}^{+}$ and K${}^{-}$ mesons have been measured in C+C collisions at beam energies per nucleon below and near the nucleon-nucleon threshold. At a given beam energy, the spectral slopes of the K${}^{-}$ mesons are significantly steeper than the ones of the K${}^{+}$ mesons. The excitation functions for K${}^{+}$ and K${}^{-}$ mesons nearly coincide when correcting for the threshold energy. In contrast, the K${}^{+}$ yield exceeds the K${}^{-}$ yield by a factor of about 100 in proton-proton collisions at beam energies near the respective nucleon-nucleon thresholds.

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett

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