The nuclear equation of state observed in earthbound experiments

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作者
Hartnack, Ch.
Aichelin, Joerg
机构
[1] Univ Nantes, Ecole Mines, IN2P3 CNRS, SUBATECH Lab Phys Subatom Technol Assoc, F-44072 Nantes, France
[2] Tech Univ Darmstadt, Inst Kernphys, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D | 2007年 / 16卷 / 2-3期
关键词
equation of state;
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10.1142/S0218271807009905
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The stiffness of the hadronic equation of state has been extracted from the production rate of K+ mesons in heavy ion collisions around 1 A GeV incident energy. The data are best described with a compression modulus K around 200 MeV, a value which is usually called "soft." This is concluded from a detailed comparison of the results of transport theories with the experimental data using two different procedures: (i) the energy dependence of the ratio of K+ from Au+ Au and C+C collisions and (ii) the centrality dependence of the K+ multiplicities. It is demonstrated that input quantities of these transport theories which are not precisely known, like the kaon-nucleon potential, the Delta N -> NK+Lambda cross-section or the lifetime of the Delta in matter do not modify this conclusion.
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