Volume 508 - QCD at the Extremes (QCDEX2025) - Session: Parton Densities and TMDs at low scales, including saturation and recombination.
K-meson production and isospin-symmetry in $pp$ and $AA$ collisions
G. Lykasov*, A. Guskov, A.I. Malakhov and A.A. Zaitsev
*: corresponding author
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Abstract
The production of $K$ mesons in $pp$ and $AA$ collisions at high energies is
analyzed.
We have showed that the ratio $R_K~=~\frac{\sigma_{K^+}+\sigma_{K^-}}{2\sigma_{K^0_S}}$
calculated within the similarity approach,
including the gluon TMD at low QCD scales\cite{LMZ:2024}, and using the Lund model in the form
of MC generator PYTHIA \cite{Lund} is above 1 even at the conservation of the
isospin-symmetry. It is about 1.18 at $\sqrt{s}=$11.9 GeV
(the NA61/SHINE data \cite{Isotp_vial}) and it decreases up to 1, when the energy increases
up to a few TeV (ALICE data).
The reason of this is related to the dynamics of the kaon production.
This energy behavior of $R_K$ practically does not depend on the sort of the
beam or target.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.508.0018
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