Effects of In-Medium NN Cross Sections on Particle Production

2005/10/11 by V. Prassa, T. Gaitanos, Prassa, V. +7
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-th/0510035

6 pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2005/10/11 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

The in-medium modification of nucleon-nucleon (NN) cross sections is investigated by means of particle production in heavy ion collisions (HIC) at intermediate energies. In particular, the density dependence of the \it inelastic cross sections considerably affects the pion and kaon yields and their rapidity distributions. However, the (π^-/π⁺)- and (K⁺/K⁰)-ratios depend only moderately on the in-medium behavior of the inelastic cross sections. It turns out that particle ratios seem to be robust observables in determining the nuclear equation of state (EoS) and, particularly, its isovector sector.

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