Production of charged kaons in ArSc collisions

Abstract

Inclusive spectra of the kaons produced in ArSc collisions as functions of their transverse momentum \(p_T\) at mid-rapidity have been calculated within the approach based on the assumption of the similarity of inclusive spectra of the hadrons produced in nucleus–nucleus collisions at their small transverse momenta in the mid-rapidity region taking into account the quark-gluon dynamics in nucleon–nucleon interactions. This article gives a satisfactory description of NA61/SHINE data on \(p_T\)-spectra of the \(K^\pm \) mesons produced in ArSc collisions at the mid-rapidity (\(y\simeq \) 0).