| Measurement of the in-medium K0 inclusive cross section in pi- -induced reactions at 1.15 GeV/c (2008) | |||||||||
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| The K0 meson production by pi- mesons of 1.15 GeV/c momentum on C, Al, Cu, Sn and Pb nuclear targets was measured with the FOPI spectrometer at the SIS accelerator of GSI. Inclusive production cross-sections and the momentum distributions of K0 mesons are compared to scaled elementary production cross-sections and to predictions of theoretical models describing the in-medium production of kaons. The data represent a new reference for those models, which are widely used for interpretation of the strangeness-production in heavy-ion collisions. The presented results demonstrate the sensitivity of the kaon production to the reaction amplitudes inside nuclei and point to the existence of a repulsive KN-potential of 20+-5 MeV at normal nuclear matter density.. Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. References corrected. Minor corrections in text and author list. Figure 3 corrected. Corrections in body and abstract after comments from the referees | |||||||||
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