Published November 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Comparison of inclusive K+ production in proton-proton and proton-neutron collisions

  • 1. Institut fuer Kernphysik and Juelich Centre for Hadron Physics, Forschungszentrum Juelich, DE-52425 Juelich (Germany)
  • 2. High Energy Physics Department, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, RU-188350 Gatchina (Russian Federation)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel (Switzerland)
  • 4. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Universitaet Muenster, DE-48149 Muenster (Germany)
  • 5. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, RU-117218 Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 6. Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, RU-141980 Dubna (Russian Federation)
  • 7. Physics and Astronomy Department, University College London, UK WC1E 6BT London (United Kingdom)

Description

The momentum spectra of K+ produced at small angles in proton-proton and proton-deuteron collisions have been measured at four beam energies, 1.826, 1.920, 2.020, and 2.650 GeV, using the ANKE spectrometer at COSY-Juelich. After making corrections for Fermi motion and shadowing, the data indicate that K+ production near threshold is stronger in pp- than in pn-induced reactions. However, most of this difference could be made up by the unobserved K0 production in the pn case.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
84
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 055207-055207.6
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics