https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817119006
Subthreshold Ξ− production in proton-nucleus collisions in a BUU model
1
Wigner Research Center for Physics, Konkoly-Thege Miklós út 29-33, 1121 Budapest, Hungary
2
ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Planckstrasse 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
* e-mail: zetenyi.miklos@wigner.mta.hu
Published online: 2 February 2018
We study the production of the doubly strange Ξ baryon in subthreshold p + A collisions using a BUU type transport model. We propose a new mechanism for Ξ creation in a two-step process via hyperon-nucleon collisions. We study the influence of the anisotropy of hyperon production in N + N collisions on the Ξ multiplicity. Applying reasonable assumptions on the unknown elementary cross sections, we are able to reconstruct the Ξ yield observed by the HADES collaboration (GSI, Darmstadt) in subthreshold p+Nb collisions.
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