Strangeness in nuclei and neutron stars

L Tolos, L Fabbietti - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the present status of the experimental and theoretical developments in the field of
strangeness in nuclei and neutron stars. We start by discussing the K ̄ N interaction, that is …

Strangeness production close to the threshold in proton–nucleus and heavy-ion collisions

C Hartnack, H Oeschler, Y Leifels, EL Bratkovskaya… - Physics reports, 2012 - Elsevier
We discuss strangeness production close to the threshold in p+ A and A+ A collision.
Comparing the body of available K+, K0, K−, and Λ data with the IQMD transport code and …

Meson–nucleus potentials and the search for meson–nucleus bound states

V Metag, M Nanova, EY Paryev - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent experiments studying the meson–nucleus interaction to extract meson–nucleus
potentials are reviewed. The real part of the potentials quantifies whether the interaction is …

Hadrons in strongly interacting matter

S Leupold, V Metag, U Mosel - International Journal of Modern …, 2010 - World Scientific
We review the current status of theories and experiments aiming at an understanding and a
determination of the properties of light vector and scalar mesons inside strongly interacting …

Evidence for In-Medium Modification of the Meson at Normal Nuclear Density

R Muto, J Chiba, H En'yo, Y Fukao, H Funahashi… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
Invariant mass spectra of e+ e-pairs have been measured in 12 GeV p+ A reactions to detect
possible in-medium modification of vector mesons. Copper and carbon targets are used to …

Signatures of thermal dilepton radiation at ultrarelativistic energies

R Rapp - Physical Review C, 2001 - APS
The properties of thermal dilepton production from heavy-ion collisions in the RHIC energy
regime are evaluated for invariant masses ranging from 0.5 to 3 GeV. Using an expanding …

[HTML][HTML] ϕ photo-production from Li, C, Al, and Cu nuclei at Eγ= 1.5–2.4 GeV

T Ishikawa, DS Ahn, JK Ahn, H Akimune, WC Chang… - Physics Letters B, 2005 - Elsevier
The photo-production of ϕ mesons from Li, C, Al, and Cu at forward angles has been
measured at Eγ= 1.5–2.4 GeV. The number of events for incoherent ϕ photo-production is …

Nuclear-bound quarkonia and heavy-flavor hadrons

G Krein, AW Thomas, K Tsushima - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
In our quest to win a deeper understanding of how QCD actually works, the study of the
binding of heavy quarkonia and heavy-flavor hadrons to atomic nuclei offers enormous …

Production of mesons at midrapidity in collisions at relativistic energies

SS Adler, S Afanasiev, C Aidala, NN Ajitanand… - Physical Review C …, 2005 - APS
We present the results of ϕ meson production in the K+ K-decay channel from Au+ Au
collisions at s NN= 200 GeV as measured at midrapidity by the PHENIX detector at …

Baryon states with hidden charm in the extended local hidden gauge approach

T Uchino, WH Liang, E Oset - The European Physical Journal A, 2016 - Springer
The s-wave interaction of ̄D\Lambda_c, ̄D\Sigma_c, ̄D^∗\Lambda_c, ̄D^∗\Sigma_c
and ̄D\Sigma_c^∗, ̄D^∗\Sigma_c^∗, is studied within a unitary coupled channels …