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In-medium effects on the $K^-/K^+$ ratio at GSI

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

The in-medium modifications on the K/K+K^-/K^+ ratio produced at GSI are studied. Particular attention is paid to the properties of antikaons, which determine the chemical potential and temperature at freeze-out conditions. Different approaches have been considered: non-interacting KK^-, on-shell self-energy and single-particle spectral density. We observe that the full off-shell approach reproduces the "broad-band equilibration" advocated by Brown being the spectral density crucial to explain an enhanced K/K+K^-/K^+ ratio.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0312051,
  title  = {In-medium effects on the $K^-/K^+$ ratio at GSI},
  author = {L. Tolos and A. Polls and A. Ramos and J. Schaffner-Bielich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0312051},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures. Contributed parallel talk to the International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics (HYP2003), Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia (USA), Oct 14-18, 2003