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Subthrehold K+ production in deuteron and alpha induced nuclear reactions.

Debowsky, M. ; Senger, P. ; Boivin, M. ; et al.

NUCL-EX-9709002, 1997.

Inspire Record 448262 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.31401

Double differential cross sections have been measured for pi+ and K+ emitted around midraidity in d+A and He+A collisions at a beam kinetic energy of 1.15 GeV/nucleon. The total pi+ yield increases by a factor of about 2 when using an alpha projectile instead of a deuteron whereas the K+ yield increases by a factor of about 4. According to transport calculations, the K+ enhancement depends both on the number of hadron-hadron collisions and on the energy available in those collisions: their center-of-mass energy increases with increasing number of projectile nucleons.

2 data tables

Table 1

The spectra are fitted by the equation d3(sig)/d3(p) = CONST*exp(-Ekin/SLOPE), where Ekin is PI+ kinectic energy in the nucleon-nucleon center of mass frame.

Table 2

The spectra are fitted by the equation d3(sig)/d3(p) = CONST*exp(-Ekin/SLOPE), where Ekin is K+ kinectic energy in the nucleon-nucleon center of mass frame.