Self-consistent antikaon dynamics in isospin-asymmetric nuclear medium

We investigate properties of antikaons and hyperon resonances in isospin-asymmetric nuclear medium, using a self-consistent, covariant scheme based on vacuum antikaon-nucleon scattering amplitude.     

Kaon and antikaon optical potentials in isospin asymmetric hyperonic matter

The medium modifications of the energies of kaons and antikaons in isospin asymmetric hyperonic matter are investigated using a chiral SU(3) model. The isospin-dependent medium effects are important for asymmetric heavy-ion collision experiments, as well as relevant for the neutron star phenomenology as the bulk matter in the interior of the neutron star is highly isospin asymmetric. The effects of hyperons on the medium modifications of the kaons and antikaons in the strange hadronic matter are investigated in the present work and are seen to be appreciable for hadronic matter with large strangeness fractions. The study of the K -mesons in the asymmetric strange hadronic matter can be especially relevant for the compressed strange baryonic matter which can result from asymmetric heavy-ion collision experiments in the future accelerator facility FAIR at GSI.     

Study of the hadronization process in cold nuclear medium

The improved two-scale model is used to perform the fit to the semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) data of HERMES experiment at DESY on nuclear targets. The ratio of hadron multiplicity on nuclear target to the deuterium one is chosen as observable, as usually. The two-parameter’s fit gives satisfactory agreement with the data in term of χ ² criterium. Best values of parameters are then used to calculate the nuclear multiplicity ratio for the hadrons not included in the fit procedure.     

Nucleon properties in the nuclear medium

We study the medium modifications of nucleon properties in nuclear matter and finite nuclei. The nucleons are described as nontopological solitons, which interact through the self-consistent exchange of scalar and vector mesons. The model adopted incorporates explicit quark degrees of freedom into nuclear many-body systems, and it can provide satisfactory results on the properties of nuclear matter and finite nuclei.     

Kaon and pion ratio probes of jet quenching in nuclear collisions

Non-Abelian energy loss in quark gluon plasmas is shown to lead to novel hadron ratio suppression patterns in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. Here we investigate pion and kaon production in pp and AA collisions in a perturbative QCD frame, suppression pattern and hadron ratios. The K^?/K⁺ and K⁺/π⁺ ratios are found to be most sensitive to the opacity (density) of the plasma. Experimental data indicate that the fragmentation dominated pQCD region will be reached only at higher p _T; in an intermediate p _Tregion other particle production mechanisms dominate the K/π ratios.     

Kaon properties in (proto-)neutron star matter

The modification of kaon and antikaon properties in the interior of (proto-)neutron stars is investigated using a chiral SU(3) model. The parameters of the model are fitted to nuclear-matter saturation properties, baryon octet vacuum masses, hyperon optical potentials and low-energy kaon-nucleon scattering lengths. We study the kaon/antikaon medium modification and explore the possibility of antikaon condensation in (proto-)neutron star matter at zero as well as finite temperature/entropy and neutrino content. The effect of hyperons on kaon and antikaon optical potentials is also investigated at different stages of the neutron star evolution.     

Statistical properties of resonance radiation selectively reflected from a cold semi-infinite medium

The problem of the quantum-statistical properties of resonance radiation selectively reflected from unexcited media in the case where the photons are mutually correlated in the incident radiation flux is posed and solved. Allowance for mutual photon correlation precludes, in principle, solving the problem by perturbation methods. A quantum analog of the optical theorem of absorption, which causes an infinite subsequence of Feynman diagrams to vanish, is pointed out. The frequency-angle distribution of the photons in the reflected flux is predicted. The Fresnel formulas are reconstructed for the averaged reflection characteristics. The limits for their applicability in describing the reflection of mutually correlated photons are given. A suppression effect is predicted for the reflection of radiation from a laser source. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 116, 821–837 (September 1999)     

Exotica in dense and cold nuclear matter

A method for creating and investigating, under laboratory conditions, droplets of superdense cold matter is proposed, neutron stars being the closest analog of this kind of matter in nature. Arguments in support of the statement that an implementation of respective experiments is possible are presented, and the mechanism of kinematical cooling of the droplets in question is clarified. Various trigger types are proposed for performing searches for various exotic multiquark states in cold superdense matter.     

Charmed hadrons in nuclear medium

We study the properties of charmed hadrons in dense matter within a coupled-channel approach which accounts for Pauli blocking effects and meson self-energies in a self-consistent manner. We analyze the behaviour in this dense environment of dynamically-generated baryonic resonances as well as the open-charm meson spectral functions. We discuss the implications of the in-medium properties of open-charm mesons on the DsO(2317) and the predicted X(3700) scalar resonances.     

Charmed hadrons in nuclear medium

We study the properties of charmed hadrons in dense matter within a coupled-channel approach which accounts for Pauli blocking effects and meson self-energies in a self-consistent manner.We analyze the behaviour in this dense environment of dynamically-generated baryonic resonances as well as the open-charm meson spectral functions.We discuss the implications of the in-medium properties of open-charm mesons on the D s0 （2317） and the predicted X（3700） scalar resonances.     

Kaon production in hadronic matter

Subthreshold kaon production has been studied in symmetric nucleus-nucleus collisions as a function of the nucleus mass, beam energy and centrality. In Au+Au collsions at 1 AGeV theK ⁺ multiplicity increases more than linearly with increasing number of participating nucleons. Transport calculations have to assume a soft equation of state in order to reproduce the data. The in-mediumK ^? cross section measured in Ni+Ni collisions is enhanced by about a factor of 7 as compared to the free cross section when using theK ⁺ cross section at equivalent beam energies as a normalization.     

重离子碰撞中的K介子流

用量子分子动力学(QMD)模型研究了中能重离子碰撞中的K⁺介子流. 计算结果显出, 实验数据只能与计入由手征拉格朗日导出的K⁺平均场势的结果相符合.这表明, K⁺介子边流的形式是对在核介质中K⁺位势的一个有效的探针.     

相对论重离子碰撞中的K+产生及集体流

用自洽的相对论BUU模型研究了相对论重离子碰撞的K⁺产生及流,研究结果表明K⁺集体流在相对论重离子碰撞中对核态方程(EOS)和K–N标量吸引项(∑_KN)是敏感的,在对K⁺流中心度依赖的研究中发现在大碰撞参数时有反向流出现,可为确定∑_KN值提供更为有效的信息.对K⁺产生的总产额及各个不同道的贡献与EOS和∑_KN关系进行了细致分析,表明N△道对K⁺产生的贡献和影响都是最显著的; 不同道的贡献对∑_KN的灵敏程度不同,其中∑_KN对N△道的影响要比对πB道的大.     

Double-hadron leptoproduction in the nuclear medium

The first measurements of double-hadron production in deep-inelastic scattering within the nuclear medium were made with the HERMES spectrometer at DESY HERA using a 27.6 GeV positron beam. By comparing data for deuterium, nitrogen, krypton, and xenon nuclei, the influence of the nuclear medium on the ratio of double-hadron to single-hadron yields was investigated. Nuclear effects on the additional hadron are clearly observed, but with little or no difference among nitrogen, krypton, or xenon, and with smaller magnitude than effects seen on previously measured single-hadron multiplicities. The data are compared with models based on partonic energy loss or prehadronic scattering and with a model based on a purely absorptive treatment of the final-state interactions. Thus, the double-hadron ratio provides an additional tool for studying modifications of hadronization in nuclear matter.