Session J8 - Mini Symposium: Probing Dense Matter-Collective Flow.
MIXED session, Sunday morning, April 20
Room 10/11, Renaissance
In flow studies kaons carry distinctively different information than protons or pions from the collision zone. Protons are not produced particles and are more sensitive to the memory of the initial state. Pions are produced in the collision but might be dominated by absorption and rescattering because of their large cross section with hadronic matter. Due to kaons low cross section with hadronic matter and as carriers of strangeness, they can provide information which is more sensitive to the components of mean fields used in theoretical descriptions of these collisions.
The measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy for kaons measured with respect to the reaction plane in Au+Au collisions at 11.5 GeV/c are presented. The azimuthal anisotropy is studied as a function of rapidity and transverse momentum of the particles for different centralities of the collision. A comparison of the results with model predictions will be presented.
^ Supported in part by the U.S. Dept. of Energy. ^* Supported in part by the NSERC, Canada. ^** Supported in part by the CNPq, Brazil.