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• The extraction of chiral symmetry signals from these effects is highly non-trivial.

• How do we make it easy for the theorists?

• Measure

  • several decay channels of
  • multiple vector mesons over
  • a large amount of phase space

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Shuryak and Thorsson, NPA 536 (`92) 739.

• Kaons in a nuclear medium feel a potential with a real and imaginary component:

  • Imaginary: rescattering (last topic)
    • in RQMD
  • Real: forward scattering
    • not in RQMD
  • … change in effective mass which changes:
    • phase space to f decay resulting in change of f width (S&T below)
    • change of path of daughters resulting in change of reconstructed f width

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