Journal article

Publication year: 1998

Pages: 717-738

Journal: Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics

Volume number: 629

Issue number: 3-4

ISSN: 0375-9474

eISSN: 1873-1554

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9474(97)00647-7

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
We analyze the production of rho-mesons in p + A reactions including both the production by proton-nucleon as well as pion-nucleon collisions within a coupled channel transport approach. The final state interactions of the rho-meson with nucleons are evaluated from a resonance model which allows to extract elastic and inelastic cross sections, We include the latter final state interactions, the rho-meson decay into two pions as well as the final pion-nucleon interactions within the transport approach. We find the invariant mass distribution of pion pairs to be sensitive to the rho-meson properties in the nuclear medium. However, due to the strong final state interactions of pions only light targets like C-12 might be suited to extract a rho-signal from the uncorrelated two pion background which carries information about the in-medium properties of the rho-meson. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.

Harvard Citation style: Sibirtsev, A. and Cassing, W. (1998) ρ-meson production and decay in proton-nucleus collision, Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics, 629(3-4), pp. 717-738. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9474(97)00647-7

APA Citation style: Sibirtsev, A., & Cassing, W. (1998). ρ-meson production and decay in proton-nucleus collision. Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics. 629(3-4), 717-738. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9474(97)00647-7