Production of charged kaons in $Ar Sc$ collisions

Abstract

Inclusive spectra of the kaons produced in $Ar Sc$ collisions as functions of their transverse momentum $p_T$ at mid-rapidity have been calculated within the approach based on the assumption of the similarity of inclusive spectra of the hadrons produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions at their small transverse momenta in the mid-rapidity region taking into account the quark-gluon dynamics in nucleon-nucleon interactions. This article gives a satisfactory description of NA61/SHINE data on $p_T$-spectra of the $K^\pm$ mesons produced in $ArSc$ collisions at the mid-rapdity ($y\simeq$ 0).