Hadroproduction of neutral Kstar-mesons up to LHC energies

TL;DR

This paper analyzes neutral Kstar-meson production at high energies, demonstrating that the Quark-Gluon String Model accurately predicts production densities and energy dependencies across different targets.

Contribution

It applies the Quark-Gluon String Model to describe Kstar-meson production at LHC energies, providing quantitative agreement with experimental data.

Findings

Model accurately describes inclusive density in midrapidity

Reproduces energy dependence of Kstar production

Validates the model across nucleon and nuclear targets

Abstract

We consider the experimental data on neutral Kstar-meson production on nucleon and nuclear targets. The Quark-Gluon String Model quantitatively describes the inclusive density in the midrapidity region, as well as the initial energy and A dependences of the produced Kstar-mesons.