European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields (May 2020)

$$K^{*}(892)^0$$ K∗(892)0 meson production in inelastic p+p interactions at 158 $$\text{ Ge }\text{ V }\!/\!c$$ GeV/c beam momentum measured by NA61/SHINEat the CERN SPS

  • NA61/SHINE Collaboration,
  • A. Aduszkiewicz,
  • E. V. Andronov,
  • T. Antićić,
  • V. Babkin,
  • M. Baszczyk,
  • S. Bhosale,
  • A. Blondel,
  • M. Bogomilov,
  • A. Brandin,
  • A. Bravar,
  • W. Bryliński,
  • J. Brzychczyk,
  • M. Buryakov,
  • O. Busygina,
  • A. Bzdak,
  • H. Cherif,
  • M. Ćirković,
  • M. Csanad,
  • J. Cybowska,
  • T. Czopowicz,
  • A. Damyanova,
  • N. Davis,
  • M. Deliyergiyev,
  • M. Deveaux,
  • A. Dmitriev,
  • W. Dominik,
  • P. Dorosz,
  • J. Dumarchez,
  • R. Engel,
  • G. A. Feofilov,
  • L. Fields,
  • Z. Fodor,
  • A. Garibov,
  • M. Gaździcki,
  • O. Golosov,
  • V. Golovatyuk,
  • M. Golubeva,
  • K. Grebieszkow,
  • F. Guber,
  • A. Haesler,
  • S. N. Igolkin,
  • S. Ilieva,
  • A. Ivashkin,
  • S. R. Johnson,
  • K. Kadija,
  • E. Kaptur,
  • N. Kargin,
  • E. Kashirin,
  • M. Kiełbowicz,
  • V. A. Kireyeu,
  • V. Klochkov,
  • V. I. Kolesnikov,
  • D. Kolev,
  • A. Korzenev,
  • V. N. Kovalenko,
  • S. Kowalski,
  • M. Koziel,
  • A. Krasnoperov,
  • W. Kucewicz,
  • M. Kuich,
  • A. Kurepin,
  • D. Larsen,
  • A. László,
  • T. V. Lazareva,
  • M. Lewicki,
  • K. Łojek,
  • B. Łysakowski,
  • V. V. Lyubushkin,
  • M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska,
  • Z. Majka,
  • B. Maksiak,
  • A. I. Malakhov,
  • D. Manić,
  • A. Marcinek,
  • A. D. Marino,
  • K. Marton,
  • H.-J. Mathes,
  • T. Matulewicz,
  • V. Matveev,
  • G. L. Melkumov,
  • A. O. Merzlaya,
  • B. Messerly,
  • Ł. Mik,
  • S. Morozov,
  • S. Mrówczyński,
  • Y. Nagai,
  • M. Naskręt,
  • V. Ozvenchuk,
  • V. Paolone,
  • O. Petukhov,
  • R. Płaneta,
  • P. Podlaski,
  • B. A. Popov,
  • B. Porfy,
  • M. Posiadała-Zezula,
  • D. S. Prokhorova,
  • D. Pszczel,
  • S. Puławski,
  • J. Puzović,
  • M. Ravonel,
  • R. Renfordt,
  • E. Richter-Wąs,
  • D. Röhrich,
  • E. Rondio,
  • M. Roth,
  • B. T. Rumberger,
  • M. Rumyantsev,
  • A. Rustamov,
  • M. Rybczynski,
  • A. Rybicki,
  • A. Sadovsky,
  • K. Schmidt,
  • I. Selyuzhenkov,
  • A. Yu. Seryakov,
  • P. Seyboth,
  • M. Słodkowski,
  • P. Staszel,
  • G. Stefanek,
  • J. Stepaniak,
  • M. Strikhanov,
  • H. Ströbele,
  • T. Šuša,
  • A. Taranenko,
  • A. Tefelska,
  • D. Tefelski,
  • V. Tereshchenko,
  • A. Toia,
  • R. Tsenov,
  • L. Turko,
  • R. Ulrich,
  • M. Unger,
  • F. F. Valiev,
  • D. Veberič,
  • V. V. Vechernin,
  • A. Wickremasinghe,
  • Z. Włodarczyk,
  • O. Wyszyński,
  • E. D. Zimmerman,
  • R. Zwaska

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7955-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 80, no. 5
pp. 1 – 22

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Abstract The measurement of $$K^{*}(892)^0$$ K∗(892)0 resonance production via its $$K^{+}\pi ^{-}$$ K+π- decay mode in inelastic p+p collisions at beam momentum 158 $$\text{ Ge }\text{ V }\!/\!c$$ GeV/c ($$\sqrt{s_{NN}}=17.3$$ sNN=17.3 $$\text{ Ge }\text{ V }$$ GeV ) is presented. The data were recorded by the NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The template method was used to extract the $$K^{*}(892)^0$$ K∗(892)0 signal and double-differential transverse momentum and rapidity spectra were obtained. The full phase-space mean multiplicity of $$K^{*}(892)^0$$ K∗(892)0 mesons was found to be $$(78.44 \pm 0.38 \mathrm {(stat)} \pm 6.0 \mathrm {(sys)) \cdot 10^{-3}}$$ (78.44±0.38(stat)±6.0(sys))·10-3 . The NA61/SHINEresults are compared with the Epos1.99 and Hadron Resonance Gas models as well as with world data from p+p and nucleus–nucleus collisions.