Transverse momentum spectra of mesons in p+p collisions at CERN SPS energies from the UrQMD transport model

Abstract

The UrQMD transport model, version 3.4, is used to study the new experimental data on total yields, rapidity distributions and transverse momentum spectra of π±, K±, p and p¯$\bar p$ produced in inelastic p + p interactions at SPS energies, recently published by the NA61/SHINE Collaboration. The comparison of model predictions to these new measurements is presented as a function of collision energy. In addition, we compare with the experimental data the results on kaon-over-pion multiplicity ratio and the inverse slope parameter of negative kaons produced at midrapidity. A complicated pattern of discrepancies between the experimental data and the UrQMD transport model is apparent. We conclude that new experimental data analyzed in this contribution still constitute a challenge for the present version of the model.