K^-/K^+ ratio in heavy-ion collisions with an antikaon self-energy in hot and dense matter
The $K^-/K^+$ ratio produced in heavy-ion collisions at GSI energies is studied. The in-medium properties at finite temperature of the hadrons involved are included, paying a special attention to the in-medium properties of antikaons. Using a statistical approach, it is found that the determination...
| Autores: | , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2003 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/11005 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/11005 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Reaccions nuclears Constitució de la matèria Col·lisions (Física nuclear) Nuclear reactions Constitution of matter Collisions (Nuclear physics) |
| Sumario: | The $K^-/K^+$ ratio produced in heavy-ion collisions at GSI energies is studied. The in-medium properties at finite temperature of the hadrons involved are included, paying a special attention to the in-medium properties of antikaons. Using a statistical approach, it is found that the determination of the temperature and chemical potential at freeze-out conditions compatible with the ratio $K^-/K^+$ is very delicate, and depends very strongly on the approximation adopted for the antikaon self-energy. The use of an energy dependent $\bar{K}$ spectral density, including both s and p-wave components of the $\bar{K}N$ interaction, lowers substantially the freeze-out temperature compared to the standard simplified mean-field treatment and gives rise to an overabundance of $K^-$ production in the dense and hot medium. Even a moderately attractive antikaon-nucleus potential obtained from our self-consistent many-body calculation does reproduce the ``broad-band equilibration'' advocated by Brown, Rho and Song due to the additional strength of the spectral function of the $K^-$ at low energies |
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