KAON PRODUCTION IN RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS: THE ROLE OF THE ELEMENTARY CROSS SECTION

1 February 1988

journal article
Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in Modern Physics Letters A

Vol. 3 (3) , 251-256
https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217732388000301

Abstract

We investigate kaon production in relativistic heavy-ion reactions by use of a multiple collision approach. We clarify the crucial importance of the elementary kaon production cross section and show that with an appropriate parametrization suggested by phase space considerations, the data for 2.1 GeV/nucleon, Ne+NaF, can be reproduced without the need of kaon rescattering.

Keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES
ALKALI METALS
CROSS SECTION
KINETICS
PHASE SPACE
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
NUCLEAR REACTIONS

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