https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2019-12832-1
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Hadroproduction of neutral K*-mesons up to LHC energies
1
A. Alikhanyan National Scientific Laboratory, Yerevan Physics Institute, 0036, Yerevan, Armenia
2
Departamento de Física de Partículas, Facultade de Física and Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Galiza, Spain
3
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NCR Kurchatov Institute, 188350, Gatchina, St.Petersburg, Russia
* e-mail: carlos.merino@usc.es
Received:
6
May
2019
Accepted:
17
July
2019
Published online:
17
September
2019
We consider the experimental data on integrated over 
inclusive densities of neutral 
-meson production on nucleon and nuclear targets, as well as the initial energy and A-dependences of the produced -mesons, in the frame of the Quark-Gluon String Model (QGSM). We find that the experimental data on the inclusive density of -mesons in the midrapidity region present unusually small shadow corrections that become visible only at LHC energies, unlike the case of hadroproduction of pions or kaons, when this effect already appears at RHIC energies.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature, 2019
