The search of antikaon nuclear bound states, recent results from FINUDA
Description
New data from the K-stopA absorption reaction on light nuclei (6,7Li, 9Be and 12C) have been collected by the FINUDA spectrometer, running at the DAΦNE φ-factory, in Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (Italy). Data on K- nuclear absorption with the emission of hyperons together with nucleons are scarce. Further experimental studies on their possible correlations are awaited, in order to clarify the mechanism of kaon absorption on multibaryonic systems and the possible existence of K--nucleons aggregates. According to a few recent theoretical calculations the existence of states where the kaon is bound to two or three nucleons, or even more, is foreseen. These systems are expected to be 20-30 MeV narrow, with binding energies as large as 50-100 MeV. Their observation has been a little elusive so far. With FINUDA, the possibility to fully reconstruct all the particles coming from the decay of a possible bound kaonic system can be exploited, to study the existence of such states through their invariant mass spectra. In this talk an overview of the most recent results obtained so far by FINUDA in the study of the existence of K-nuclear bound states is reported.
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
- Journal Issue
- Bochum 2009 issue
- Series
- Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 44(3)
- Journal Page Range
- [1 p.]
- ISSN
- 0420-0195
- CODEN
- VDPEAZ
Conference
- Title
- DPG Spring meeting 2009 in conjunction with the European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC) of the DPG Division hadronic and nuclear physics and the nuclear physics board of the European Physical Society (EPS)
- Dates
- 16-20 Mar 2009
- Place
- Bochum (Germany)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 41025937
- Subject category
- S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ABSORPTION; ANTIKAONS; BERYLLIUM 9 TARGET; BOUND STATE; CARBON 12 TARGET; HYPERNUCLEI; KAON MINUS REACTIONS; LITHIUM 6 TARGET; LITHIUM 7 TARGET
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTIMATTER; ANTIPARTICLES; BOSONS; CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; HADRON REACTIONS; HADRONS; KAON REACTIONS; KAONS; MATTER; MESON REACTIONS; MESONS; NUCLEAR FRAGMENTS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEI; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; SORPTION; STRANGE MESONS; STRANGE PARTICLES; TARGETS
Optional Information
- Notes
- Session: HK 57.10 Mi 18:45; No further information available
- Collaborations
- FINUDA-Collaboration