Published May 1, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Production of hypernuclei in peripheral HI collisions: The HypHI project at GSI

  • 1. The Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM), J.J.Becherweg 45, 55099 Mainz (Germany)
  • 2. Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, J.J.Becherweg 45, 55099 Mainz (Germany)
  • 3. GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Planckstrasse 1, 64291 Darmstadt (Germany)
  • 4. Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 (Japan)
  • 5. Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg Cedex (France)
  • 6. Department of Physics, Nigde University, 51100 Nigde (Turkey)
  • 7. KVI, University of Groningen, Zernikelaan 25, NL-9747 AA Groningen (Netherlands)
  • 8. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Gwanakro Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-747 (Korea, Republic of)

Description

The HypHI Phase 0 experiment with 6Li projectiles at 2A GeV on a carbon target has been performed at GSI in order to demonstrate the feasibility of precise hypernuclear spectroscopy with peripheral heavy ion collisions. Current data analyses have preliminary shown peaks in invariant mass distributions of p+π− for Λ, 3He+π− for 3ΛH and 4He+π− for 4ΛH. Lifetime values for the corresponding peaks have been also deduced, which is in good agreement with the former known values.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2012.02.011

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2012.02.011;
PII
S0375-9474(12)00085-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
881
Journal Page Range
p. 218-227
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

Conference

Title
ECT workshop on strange hadronic matter
Dates
26-30 Sep 2011
Place
Trento (Italy)

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