Kaon production in heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies
| dc.creator | Fuchs, Christian | |
| dc.date | 2005-07-07 | |
| dc.date | 2005-09-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T12:00:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T12:00:10Z | |
| dc.description | The article reviews the physics related to kaon and antikaon production in heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies. Chiral dynamics predicts substantial modifications of the kaon properties in a dense nuclear environment. The status of the theoretical predictions as well as experimental evidences for medium effects such as repulsive/attractive mass shifts for $K^+/K^-$ are reviewed. In the vicinity of the thresholds, and even more pronounced below threshold, the production of strangeness is a highly collective process. Starting from elementary reaction channels the phenomenology of $K^+$ and $K^-$ production, i.e. freeze-out densities, time scales etc. as derived from experiment and theoretical transport calculations is presented. Below threshold kaon production shows a high sensitivity on the nuclear compression reached in heavy ion reactions. This allows to put constraints on the nuclear equation-of-state which are finally discussed. | |
| dc.description | 94 pages, 52 figures, to appear in Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys, typos corrected in v2 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0507017 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0507017 | |
| dc.identifier | Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys.56:1-103,2006 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2005.07.004 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/206788 | |
| dc.subject | Nuclear Theory | |
| dc.title | Kaon production in heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies | |
| dc.type | text |