Medium effects in proton-induced $K^{0}$ production at 3.5 GeV

The HADES collaboration Agakishiev, G. ; Arnold, O. ; Belver, D. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.C 90 (2014) 054906, 2014.
Inspire Record 1292844 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.64407

We present the analysis of the inclusive $K^{0}$ production in p+p and p+Nb collisions measured with the HADES detector at a beam kinetic energy of 3.5 GeV. Data are compared to the GiBUU transport model. The data suggest the presence of a repulsive momentum-dependent kaon potential as predicted by the Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT). For the kaon at rest and at normal nuclear density, the ChPT potential amounts to $\approx 35$ MeV. A detailed tuning of the kaon production cross sections implemented in the model has been carried out to reproduce the experimental data measured in p+p collisions. The uncertainties in the parameters of the model were examined with respect to the sensitivity of the experimental results from p+Nb collisions to the in-medium kaon potential.

2 data tables

The K0 production cross section in P P collisions.

The K0 production cross section in P + NB collisions. The uncertainty given on SIG(P NB --> K0 X) is the dominating absolute normalization uncertainty.