Effect of chiral restoration on kaon production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
- 20 May 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 66 (20) , 2577-2580
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.66.2577
Abstract
Kaon production from meson-meson annihilation is enhanced significantly because of the decrease of hadron masses in hot and dense matter as a result of the restoration of chiral symmetry. We show that this can lead to enhanced kaon yield in high-energy heavy-ion collisions.Keywords
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