$K^{0}_{S}$ meson production in inelastic $\textit{p+p}$ interactions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

A. Acharya, H. Adhikary, K. K. Allison, N. Amin, E. V. Andronov, T.Antic, V. Babkin, M. Baszczyk, S. Bhosale, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, Y. Bondar, A. Brandin, A.Bravar, W.Brylinski, J. Brzychczyk, M. Buryakov, O. Busygina, A. Bzdak, H. Cherif, M. Cirkovic, M. Csanad, J. Cybowska, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, M. Deliyergiyev, M. Deveaux, A. Dmitriev,W. Dominik, P. Dorosz, J. Dumarchez, R. Engel, G. A. Feofilov, L. Fields, Z. Fodor, A.Garibov, M.Gazdzicki, O. Golosov, V. Golovatyuk, M. Golubeva, K. Grebieszkow, F. Guber, A. Haesler, S. N. Igolkin, S. Ilieva, A. Ivashkin, S. R. Johnson, K. Kadija, N. Kargin, E. Kashirin, M. Kiełbowicz, V. A. Kireyeu, V. Klochkov, V. I. Kolesnikov, D.Kolev, A. Korzenev, V. N. Kovalenko, B. Kozłowski, A. Krasnoperov, W. Kucewicz, M. Kuich, A. Kurepin, D. Larsen, A. László, T. V. Lazareva, K. Łojek, V. V. Lyubushkin, M. Mackowiak-Pawłowska, Z. Majka, B. Maksiak, A. I. Malakhov, A. Marcinek, A. D. Marino, K.Marton, H.-J. Mathes, T. Matulewicz, V.Matveev, G. L. Melkumov, A. O. Merzlaya, B. Messerly, Ł.Mik, S. Morozov, Y. Nagai, M. Naskret, V. Ozvenchuk, O. Panova, V. Paolone, O. Petukhov, I. Pidhurskyi, R. Płaneta, P. Podlaski, B. A. Popov, B. Porfy, M. Posiadała-Zezula, D. S. Prokhorova, D. Pszczel, J. Puzovic, M. Ravonel, D. Röhrich, E. Rondio, B. T. Rumberger, M. Rumyantsev, A. Rustamov, M. Rybczynski, A. Rybicki, S. Sadhu, A. Sadovsky, I. Selyuzhenkov, A. Yu. Seryakov, P. Seyboth, M. Słodkowski, P. Staszel, G. Stefanek, J. Stepaniak, M. Strikhanov, H. Ströbele, T. Šuša, A. Taranenko, A. Tefelska, D. Tefelski, V. Tereshchenko, A.Toia, R. Tsenov, L. Turko, M. Unger, D. Uzhva, F. F. Valiev, D. Veberiˇc, V. V. Vechernin, A. Wickremasinghe, O. Wyszyński, A. Zaitsev, E. D. Zimmerman, R. Zwaska
The production of K0 S mesons in inelastic p+p collisions at beam momentum 158 GeV/c ( √ sNN = 17.3 GeV) was measured with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. Doubledifferential distributions were obtained in transversemomentum and rapidity. The mean multiplicity of K0 S was determined to be 0.162±0.001(stat.)±0.011(sys.). The results on K0 S production are compared with model predictions (EPOS 1.99, SMASH 2.0, PHSD and UrQMD 3.4 models) as well as with published world data.