Transverse activity of kaons and the deconfinement phase transition in nucleus-nucleus collisions

  • We found that the experimental results on transverse mass spectra of kaons produced in central Pb+Pb (Au+Au) interactions show an anomalous dependence on the collision energy. The inverse slopes of the spectra increase with energy in the low (AGS) and high (RHIC) energy domains, whereas they are constant in the intermediate (SPS) energy range. We argue that this anomaly is probably caused by a modification of the equation of state in the transition region between confined and deconfined matter. This observation may be considered as a new signal, in addition to the previously reported anomalies in the pion and strangeness production, of the onset of deconfinement located in the low SPS energy domain.

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Author:Mark I. GorensteinORCiDGND, Marek GaździckiORCiD, Kyrill A. BugaevORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-16449
URL:http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0303041
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Year of Completion:2003
Year of first Publication:2003
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2005/09/27
Source:Phys.Lett. B567 (2003), http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0303041
HeBIS-PPN:188755624
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht