Effect of in-medium mass-shift on transverse-momentum spectrum and elliptic anisotropy of ϕ meson

Abstract

We study the effect of in-medium mass-shift on transverse-momentum spectrum and elliptic anisotropy of [Formula: see text] meson. It is found that the mass-shift enhances the [Formula: see text] yields and suppresses the elliptic flow [Formula: see text] in large momentum region, and the effects increase with the increasing mass-shift. The effects are various for different sources and decrease with the increasing collision energy. We further study the effects for parts of all [Formula: see text] meson with mass-shift, and the effects decrease with the decreasing probability of [Formula: see text] meson with mass-shift. A possible method to detect the mass-shift of [Formula: see text] meson via transverse-momentum spectrum and [Formula: see text] is proposed.