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Xi production at AGS energies

Subrata Pal, C. M. Ko, J. M. Alexander, P. Chung, R. A. Lacey

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0211020

Abstract

A relativistic transport model is used to study Xi- production in 2-11A GeV Au+Au collisions. Introducing the strangeness-exchange reactions between antikaons and hyperons as the sources for Xi-, we find that the cascade yield in these collisions is in reasonable agreement with the data. Although the Xi- abundance does not reach chemical equilibrium unless the cross section for strangeness-exchange reactions is enhanced by six times, it exhibits the strongest enhancement with increasing centrality of collision and with increasing beam energy.

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