Journal article

Publication year: 1998

Pages: 107-138

Journal: Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics

Volume number: 644

Issue number: 1-2

ISSN: 0375-9474

eISSN: 1873-1554

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9474(98)80011-0

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
We study systematically the production of strangeness in nuclear reactions from SIS to SPS energies within the covariant hadronic transport approach HSD, Whereas the proton and pion rapidity distributions as well as pion transverse momentum spectra are well described in the hadronic transport model from 2-200 A GeV, the K+ and K- spectra are noticeably underestimated at AGS energies while the K+ spectra match well at SIS and SPS energies with the experimental data. We conclude that the failure of the hadronic model at AGS energies points towards a nonhadronic phase during the collision of heavy systems around 10 A GeV, (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.

Harvard Citation style: Geiss, J., Cassing, W. and Greiner, C. (1998) Strangeness production in the HSD transport approach from SIS to SPS energies, Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics, 644(1-2), pp. 107-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9474(98)80011-0

APA Citation style: Geiss, J., Cassing, W., & Greiner, C. (1998). Strangeness production in the HSD transport approach from SIS to SPS energies. Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics. 644(1-2), 107-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9474(98)80011-0