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Phys Rev Lett. 2019 Jul 12;123(2):022002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.022002.

Strong Absorption of Hadrons with Hidden and Open Strangeness in Nuclear Matter.

Physical review letters

J Adamczewski-Musch, O Arnold, E T Atomssa, C Behnke, A Belounnas, A Belyaev, J C Berger-Chen, J Biernat, A Blanco, C Blume, M Böhmer, S Chernenko, L Chlad, P Chudoba, I Ciepał, C Deveaux, D Dittert, J Dreyer, E Epple, L Fabbietti, O Fateev, P Fonte, C Franco, J Friese, I Fröhlich, T Galatyuk, J A Garzón, R Gernhäuser, M Golubeva, R Greifenhagen, F Guber, M Gumberidze, S Harabasz, T Heinz, T Hennino, C Höhne, R Holzmann, A Ierusalimov, A Ivashkin, B Kämpfer, B Kardan, I Koenig, W Koenig, B W Kolb, G Korcyl, G Kornakov, F Kornas, R Kotte, J Kuboś, A Kugler, T Kunz, A Kurepin, A Kurilkin, P Kurilkin, V Ladygin, R Lalik, K Lapidus, A Lebedev, S Linev, L Lopes, M Lorenz, T Mahmoud, L Maier, A Malige, J Markert, S Maurus, V Metag, J Michel, D M Mihaylov, V Mikhaylov, S Morozov, C Müntz, R Münzer, L Naumann, K Nowakowski, Y Parpottas, V Pechenov, O Pechenova, O Petukhov, J Pietraszko, A P Prozorov, W Przygoda, B Ramstein, N Rathod, A Reshetin, P Rodriguez-Ramos, A Rost, A Sadovsky, P Salabura, T Scheib, K Schmidt-Sommerfeld, H Schuldes, E Schwab, F Scozzi, F Seck, P Sellheim, J Siebenson, L Silva, J Smyrski, S Spataro, S Spies, H Ströbele, J Stroth, P Strzempek, C Sturm, O Svoboda, M Szala, P Tlusty, M Traxler, H Tsertos, C Ungethüm, O Vázquez Doce, V Wagner, C Wendisch, M G Wiebusch, J Wirth, D Wójcik, Y Zanevsky, P Zumbruch, C Curceanu, K Piscicchia, A Scordo

Affiliations

  1. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Italy.
  2. CENTRO FERMI - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", 00184 Rome, Italy.

PMID: 31386541 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.022002

Abstract

We present the first observation of K^{-} and ϕ absorption within nuclear matter by means of π^{-}-induced reactions on C and W targets at an incident beam momentum of 1.7  GeV/c studied with HADES at SIS18/GSI. The double ratio (K^{-}/K^{+})_{W}/(K^{-}/K^{+})_{C} is found to be 0.319±0.009(stat)_{-0.012}^{+0.014}(syst) indicating a larger absorption of K^{-} in heavier targets as compared to lighter ones. The measured ϕ/K^{-} ratios in π^{-}+C and π^{-}+W reactions within the HADES acceptance are found to be equal to 0.55±0.04(stat)_{-0.07}^{+0.06}(syst) and to 0.63±0.06(stat)_{-0.11}^{+0.11}(syst), respectively. The similar ratios measured in the two different reactions demonstrate for the first time experimentally that the dynamics of the ϕ meson in nuclear medium is strongly coupled to the K^{-} dynamics. The large difference in the ϕ production off C and W nuclei is discussed in terms of a strong ϕN in-medium coupling. These results are relevant for the description of heavy-ion collisions and the structure of neutron stars.

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