Isospin dependence of relative yields of K+ and K0 mesons at 1.528 AGeV

Isospin dependence of relative yields of K+ and K0 mesons at 1.528 AGeV

Lopez, X.; Kim, Y. J.; Herrmann, N.; Andronic, A.; Barret, V.; Basrak, Z.; Bastid, N.; Benabderrahmane, M. L.; Caplar, R.; Cordier, E.; Crochet, P.; Dupieux, P.; Dzelalija, M.; Fodor, Z.; Gasparic, I.; Gobbi, A.; Grishkin, Y.; Hartmann, O. N.; Hildenbrand, K. D.; Hong, B.; Kang, T. I.; Kecskemeti, J.; Kirejczyk, M.; Kis, M.; Koczon, P.; Korolija, M.; Kotte, R.; Lebedev, A.; Leifels, Y.; Merschmeyer, M.; Neubert, W.; Pelte, D.; Petrovici, M.; Rami, F.; Reisdorf, W.; Ryu, M. S.; Schüttauf, A.; Seres, Z.; Sikora, B.; Sim, K. S.; Simion, V.; Siwek-Wilczynska, K.; Smolyankin, V.; Stoicea, G.; Tyminski, Z.; Wagner, P.; Wisniewski, K.; Wohlfarth, D.; Xiao, Z.; Yushmanov, I.; Zhilin, A.; Ferini, G.; Gaitanos, T.

New results of K+ and K0 meson production in Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions at beam energy of 1.528 AGeV, measured with the FOPI detector at GSI Darmstadt, are presented as a possible probe of isospin effects in high density nuclear matter. The measured double ratio (K+/K0)Ru/K+/K0)Zr is compared with a thermal model and a Relativistic Mean Field transport model using two different collision scenarios and under different assumptions on the stiffness of the symmetry energy. We found a good agreement with the thermal model predictions and the assumption of a soft symmetry energy for infinite nuclear matter.

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