Subthreshold kaon production as a probe of the nuclear equation of state
Abstract
The production of kaons at subthreshold energies from heavy-ion collisions is sensitive to the nuclear equation of state. In the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck model, the number of produced kaons from central collisions between heavy nuclei at incident energies around 700 MeV/nucleon can vary by a factor of ~3, depending on the equation of state.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- December 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.2661
- Bibcode:
- 1985PhRvL..55.2661A
- Keywords:
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- 25.70.-z;
- 21.65.+f;
- Low and intermediate energy heavy-ion reactions;
- Nuclear matter