%0 Journal Article
%T phi-Meson Mass Modification in Heavy-Ion Collisions
%A R. S. Bhalerao
%A S. K. Gupta
%A P. Shukla
%J Physics
%D 1997
%I arXiv
%X We recently presented a method of analyzing invariant-mass spectra of kaon pairs resulting from decay of $\phi$ mesons produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. It can be used to extract the shifts in the mass and the width ($\Delta M$ and $\Delta \Gamma$) of the $\phi$ mesons when they are inside the dense matter formed in these collisions. We have now performed a Monte-Carlo simulation of this process. We illustrate our method with the help of available preliminary data. Extracted value of $\Delta M$ is significantly larger than that obtained with an earlier method. Our results are consistent with the experimentally observed $p_T$ dependence of the mass shift.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9705332v1