1. Azimuthal emission patterns ofK+and ofK−mesons in Ni + Ni collisions near the strangeness production threshold
- Author
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Philippe Crochet, M. S. Ryu, Paul Buehler, W. Reisdorf, Johann Zmeskal, Y. Leifels, P. Wagner, Michael Cargnelli, R. Kotte, Elena Bratkovskaya, Zhigang Xiao, Igor Gašparić, A. Lebedev, Xavier Bernard Lopez, Y. J. Kim, K. S. Sim, A. Le Fèvre, J. Kecskemeti, A. Reischl, Anton Andronic, P. Gasik, Vladislav Manko, K. Wiśniewski, M. Kiš, Valerie Ramillien Barret, Pascal Dupieux, Fouad Rami, Johann Marton, K. Siwek-Wilczyńska, R. Čaplar, P. Koczon, M. Dželalija, I. Deppner, I. E. Yushmanov, Byung-Sik Hong, Ken Suzuki, N. Herrmann, R. H. Munzer, V. T. Smolyankin, Z. Basrak, V. Simion, Nicole Bastid, A. Zhilin, Mihai Petrovici, O. N. Hartmann, Z. Fodor, A. Schüttauf, M. Berger, B. Sikora, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Z. Seres, T. I. Kang, Laura Fabbietti, T. Matulewicz, K. D. Hildenbrand, V. Zinyuk, Eberhard Widmann, Krzysztof Piasecki, Ralf Peter Averbeck, Z. Tyminski, C. Hartnack, P. Schmidt, M. Kirejczyk, Ya-Peng Zhang, J. L. Liu, I. Carevic, and Y. Grishkin
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Meson ,High Energy Physics::Lattice ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Nuclear Theory ,Elliptic flow ,Strangeness production ,Kinetic energy ,Nuclear matter ,7. Clean energy ,Azimuth ,Nuclear physics ,Transverse momentum ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment ,Beam (structure) - Abstract
Azimuthal emission patterns of $K^\pm$ mesons have been measured in Ni + Ni collisions with the FOPI spectrometer at a beam kinetic energy of 1.91 A GeV. The transverse momentum $p_{T}$ integrated directed and elliptic flow of $K^{+}$ and $K^{-}$ mesons as well as the centrality dependence of $p_{T}$ - differential directed flow of $K^{+}$ mesons are compared to the predictions of HSD and IQMD transport models. The data exhibits different propagation patterns of $K^{+}$ and $K^{-}$ mesons in the compressed and heated nuclear medium and favor the existence of a kaon-nucleon in-medium potential, repulsive for $K^{+}$ mesons and attractive for $K^{-}$ mesons.
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- 2014