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View SchemaKaon production in heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies
| Authors | Christian Fuchs |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0507017 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0507017 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ppnp.2005.07.004 |
| Journal | Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys.56:1-103,2006 |
Abstract
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.
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