Momentum dependence of the phi-meson nuclear transparency
/ Authors
M. Hartmann, Y. Kiselev, A. Polyanskiy, E. Paryev, M. Büscher, D. Chiladze, S. Dymov, A. Dzyuba, R. Gebel, Hejny
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B. Kämpfer, I. Keshelashvili, Koptev, B. Lorentz, Y. Maeda, V. Magas, S. Merzliakov, S. Mikirtytchiants, M. Nekipelov, H. Ohm, L. Roca, H. Schade, Serdyuk, A. Sibirtsev, V. Y. Sinitsyna, H. Stein, H. Ströher, S. Trusov, Y. Valdau, C. Wilkin, P. Wüstner, Q. Ye
/ Abstract
The production of phi mesons in proton collisions with C, Cu, Ag, and Au targets has been studied via the phi -> K+K- decay at an incident beam energy of 2.83 GeV using the ANKE detector system at COSY. For the first time, the momentum dependence of the nuclear transparency ratio, the in-medium phi width, and the differential cross section for phi meson production at forward angles have been determined for these targets over the momentum range of 0.6 - 1.6 GeV/c. There are indications of a significant momentum dependence in the value of the extracted phi width, which corresponds to an effective phi-N absorption cross section in the range of 14 - 21 mb.
Journal: Physical Review C