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Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Mar 10;96(9):092301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.092301. Epub 2006 Mar 10.

Experimental signature of medium modifications for rho and omega mesons in the 12 GeV p+A reactions.

Physical review letters

M Naruki, Y Fukao, H Funahashi, M Ishino, H Kanda, M Kitaguchi, S Mihara, K Miwa, T Miyashita, T Murakami, T Nakura, F Sakuma, M Togawa, S Yamada, Y Yoshimura, H En'yo, R Muto, T Tabaru, S Yokkaichi, J Chiba, M Ieiri, O Sasaki, M Sekimoto, K H Tanaka, H Hamagaki, K Ozawa

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. [email protected]

PMID: 16606257 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.092301

Abstract

The invariant mass spectra of e+e- pairs produced in 12 GeV proton-induced nuclear reactions are measured at the KEK Proton Synchrotron. On the low-mass side of the meson peak, a significant enhancement over the known hadronic sources has been observed. The mass spectra, including the excess, are well reproduced by a model that takes into account the density dependence of the vector meson mass modification, as theoretically predicted.

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