https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2002-10261-y
Transport analysis of in-medium hadron effects in pA and AA collisions
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Justus Liebig Universität Giessen, D-35392, Giessen, Germany
* e-mail: Wolfgang.Cassing@theo.physik.uni-giessen.de
The production and decay of vector mesons (
) in pA and AA reactions is studied with particular emphasis on their in-medium spectral functions. It is explored within transport calculations if hadronic in-medium decays like 
or 
might provide complementary information to their dilepton (e
+
e
-) decays. Whereas the signal from the 
-meson is found to be strongly distorted by pion rescattering, the 
-meson Dalitz decay to appears promising even for more heavy nuclei in 
and pA reactions. Furthermore, the influence of nucleon and kaon/antikaon potentials on the 
yields and spectra in pA collisions is calculated and compared to the recent data from the ANKE Collaboration.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2003
