Deep sub-threshold ϕ production in Au+Au collisions

We present data on charged kaons (K±) and ϕ mesons in Au(1.23A GeV)+Au collisions. It is the first simultaneous measurement of K− and ϕ mesons in central heavy-ion collisions below a kinetic beam energy of 10A GeV. The ϕ/K− multiplicity ratio is found to be surprisingly high with a value of 0.52±0.1...

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Main Authors: J. Adamczewski-Musch, O. Arnold, C. Behnke, A. Belounnas, A. Belyaev, J.C. Berger-Chen, J. Biernat, A. Blanco, C. Blume, M. Böhmer, P. Bordalo, S. Chernenko, L. Chlad, C. Deveaux, J. Dreyer, A. Dybczak, E. Epple, L. Fabbietti, O. Fateev, P. Filip, P. Fonte, C. Franco, J. Friese, I. Fröhlich, T. Galatyuk, J.A. Garzón, R. Gernhäuser, M. Golubeva, R. Greifenhagen, F. Guber, M. Gumberidze, S. Harabasz, T. Heinz, T. Hennino, S. Hlavac, C. Höhne, R. Holzmann, A. Ierusalimov, A. Ivashkin, B. Kämpfer, T. Karavicheva, B. Kardan, I. Koenig, W. Koenig, B.W. Kolb, G. Korcyl, G. Kornakov, R. Kotte, W. Kühn, A. Kugler, T. Kunz, A. Kurepin, A. Kurilkin, P. Kurilkin, V. Ladygin, R. Lalik, K. Lapidus, A. Lebedev, L. Lopes, M. Lorenz, T. Mahmoud, L. Maier, A. Mangiarotti, J. Markert, S. Maurus, V. Metag, J. Michel, D.M. Mihaylov, S. Morozov, C. Müntz, R. Münzer, L. Naumann, K.N. Nowakowski, M. Palka, Y. Parpottas, V. Pechenov, O. Pechenova, O. Petukhov, J. Pietraszko, W. Przygoda, S. Ramos, B. Ramstein, A. Reshetin, P. Rodriguez-Ramos, P. Rosier, A. Rost, A. Sadovsky, P. Salabura, T. Scheib, H. Schuldes, E. Schwab, F. Scozzi, F. Seck, P. Sellheim, J. Siebenson, L. Silva, Yu.G. Sobolev, S. Spataro, H. Ströbele, J. Stroth, P. Strzempek, C. Sturm, O. Svoboda, M. Szala, P. Tlusty, M. Traxler, H. Tsertos, E. Usenko, V. Wagner, C. Wendisch, M.G. Wiebusch, J. Wirth, Y. Zanevsky, P. Zumbruch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-03-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931830056X