Published September 20, 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

What heavy ion can teach us about strange particles and what strange particles can teach us about heavy ions?

  • 1. SUBATECH, University of Nantes, IN2P3/CNRS, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, 4 rue Alfred Kastler, F-44072 Nantes, Cedex 03 (France)
  • 2. Institut für Kernphysik, Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt (Germany)
  • 3. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt (Germany)
  • 4. Institute for Theoretical Physics and Frankfurt Institut for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt University, 60438 Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany)

Description

We show that heavy ion collisions can reveal properties of K+ in matter, here demonstrated for the KN optical potential, and that at the same time the K+ yield is sensitive to nuclear matter properties, here demonstrated for the hadronic equation of state

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2013.05.010

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2013.05.010;
PII
S0375-9474(13)00537-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
914
Journal Page Range
p. 392-395
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

Conference

Title
11. international conference on hypernuclear and strange particle physics
Acronym
HYP2012
Dates
1-5 Oct 2012
Place
Barcelona (Spain)

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