Study of the K+K- Interaction at COSY-11

Abstract

In this article we present studies of the near threshold pp-->ppK+K- reaction in view of the K+K- final state interaction. The investigations include analysis of both the low-energy K+K- invariant mass distributions measured by COSY-11 collaboration at excess energies of Q = 10 MeV and Q = 28 MeV and the near threshold excitation function for the pp-->ppK+K- reaction. As a result of these studies we have estimated the K+K- scattering length more precise compared to the previous analysis based only on the analysis of the differential cross sections.