Studying the in-medium meson spectrum through kaons in proton-nucleus reactions

Balassa, G.*; 青木 和也*; Gubler, P.; Lee, S. H.*; 佐甲 博之; Wolf, G.*

Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Internet), 2025(11), p.113C01_1 - 113C01_20, 2025/11

https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptaf142

Exploring the mass modifications of mesons in nuclei provides insights into the nature of strongly interacting matter. Specifically, meson mass shifts can be related to the in-medium modification of the strange quark condensate. Therefore, the partial restoration of chiral symmetry can be studied by observing the mass shifts through the decay channels , and . In this paper, we examine the possibility of observing the meson mass modifications of the mesons in 30 GeV proton-nucleus (C, Cu, Pb) collisions, to be studied at the J-PARC E88 experiment, through the kaonic decay channel, with the off-shell Budapest Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (BuBUU) transport model. By applying different mean fields to the kaons, we examine their effects on the invariant mass spectra.

Identifying the transverse and longitudinal modes of the and mesons through their angular-dependent decay modes

Park, I. W.*; 佐甲 博之; 青木 和也*; Gubler, P.; Lee, S. H.*

Physical Review D, 109(11), p.114042_1 - 114042_10, 2024/06

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.114042

Observing the mass shifts of chiral partners will provide invaluable insight into the role of chiral symmetry breaking in the generation of hadron masses. Because both the and mesons have vacuum widths smaller than 100 MeV, they are ideal candidates for realizing mass shift measurements. On the other hand, the different momentum dependence of the longitudinal and transverse modes smear the peak positions. In this work, we analyze the angular dependence of the two-body decays of both the and . It is found that the longitudinal and transverse modes of the can be isolated by observing the pseudoscalar decay in either the forward or perpendicular directions, respectively. For the decaying into a vector meson and a pseudoscalar meson, one can accomplish the same goal by further observing the polarization of the vector meson through its angular dependence on the two pseudoscalar meson decay.

Signatures of the vortical quark-gluon plasma in hadron yields

田屋 英俊*; Park, A.*; Cho, S.*; Gubler, P.; 服部 恒一*; Hong, J.*; Huang, X.-G.*; Lee, S. H.*; 門内 明彦*; 大西 明*; et al.

Physical Review C, 102(2), p.021901_1 - 021901_6, 2020/08

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.102.021901

We investigate the hadron production from the vortical quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. Based on the quark-coalescence and statistical hadronization models, we show that total hadron yields summed over the spin components are enhanced by the local vorticity with quadratic dependence. The enhancement factor amounts to be a few percent and may be detectable within current experimental sensitivities. We also show that the effect is stronger for hadrons with larger spin, and thus propose a new signature of the local vorticity, which may be detected by the yield ratio of distinct hadron species having different spins such as and . The vorticity dependence of hadron yields seems robust, with consistent predictions in both of the hadron production mechanisms for reasonable values of the vorticity strength estimated for heavy-ion collisions.

Towards understanding the in-medium phi meson at finite momentum

Gubler, P.; Kim, H. J.*; Lee, S. H.*

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有限運動量を持つ核物質中のphiメソンの振る舞いについての最近の研究の進捗状況について報告する。J-PARCのE16実験との関連についても議論する。