Constraining the high-density behavior of the nuclear equation of state from strangeness production in heavy-ion collisions
- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000 (China)
The dynamics of pions and strange particles in heavy-ion collisions in the region of 1A GeV energies is investigated by the lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics model for probing the nuclear equation of state at suprasaturation densities. The total multiplicities and the ratios obtained in {sup 197}Au+{sup 197}Au over {sup 12}C+{sup 12}C systems are calculated for selected Skyrme parameters SkP, SLy6, Ska, and SIII, which correspond to different modulus of incompressibility of symmetric nuclear matter and different cases of the stiffness of symmetry energy. A decreasing trend of the excitation functions of the ratios for strange particle production with increasing incident energy was observed. The available data of K{sup +} production measured by KaoS collaboration are described well with the parameter SkP, which results in a soft equation of state. The conclusions cannot be modified by an in-medium kaon-nucleon potential.
- OSTI ID:
- 21502840
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 83, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.83.067604; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2813
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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