AA--Dependence of ΛΛ\Lambda\Lambda Bond Energies in Double---Λ\Lambda Hypernuclei

The $A$-dependence of the bond energy $\Delta B_{\Lambda\Lambda}$ of the ${\Lambda\Lambda}$ hypernuclear ground states is calculated in a three-body ${\Lambda + \Lambda + {^{A}Z}}$ model and in the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock approach. Various ${\Lambda\Lambda}$ and $\Lambda$-nucleus or ${\Lambda N}$ potentials are used and the sensitivity of $\Delta B_{\Lambda\Lambda}$ to the interactions is discussed. It is shown that in medium and heavy ${\Lambda\Lambda}$ hypernuclei, $\Delta B_{\Lambda\Lambda}$ is a linear function of $r_{\Lambda}^{-3}$, where $r_\Lambda$ is rms radius of the hyperon orbital. It looks unlikely that it will be possible to extract ${\Lambda\Lambda}$ interaction from the double-$\Lambda$ hypernuclear energies only, the additional information about the $\Lambda$-core interaction, in particular, on $r_{\Lambda}$ is needed.Comment: 11 pages, LaTex, 3 figure

Strangeness production in antiproton-nucleus collisions

Antiproton annihilations on nuclei provide a very interesting way to study the behaviour of strange particles in the nuclear medium. In low energy $\bar p$ annihilations, the hyperons are produced mostly by strangeness exchange mechanisms. Thus, hyperon production in $\bar p A$ interactions is very sensitive to the properties of the antikaon-nucleon interaction in nuclear medium. Within the Giessen Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport model (GiBUU), we analyse the experimental data on $\Lambda$ and $K^0_S$ production in $\bar p A$ collisions at $p_{\rm lab}=0.2-4$ GeV/c. A satisfactory overall agreement is reached, except for the $K^0_S$ production in $\bar p+^{20}$Ne collisions at $p_{\rm lab}=608$ MeV/c, where we obtain substantially larger $K^0_S$ production rate. We also study the $\Xi$ hyperon production, important in view of the forthcoming experiments at FAIR and J-PARC.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, invited talk given by A.B. Larionov at the 10th International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP2011), Vancouver, Canada, Apr 27 - May 1, 2011, Hyperfine Interact. in pres

Semi-phenomenological neutron density distributions

The simple algebraic form for the nuclear densities designed to incorporate correctly, the two physical requirements, namely, the asymptotic behaviour and the behaviour near the centre, is used to calculate the neutron distributions in several nuclei. Sample neutron densities for Ni-58,Ni-64, Sn-116 and Pb-208 are presented. The calculation reveals an excellent agreement with the experiment as well as with the relativistic and nonrelativistic microscopic mean field calculations. The use of this algebraic form of the densities in the analytic studies is strongly advocated

Temperature dependent relativistic mean field for highly excited hot nuclei

The temperature dependent relativistic mean field (RMF-T) results obtained by using nonlinear Lagrangian parameter set NL3 are presented for a few selected representative spherical and deformed nuclei. The calculated total binding energy (entropy) decrease (increase) as temperature (T) increases. The depths of the potentials and the single particle (sp) energies change very little with temperature. The density slightly spreads out; as a result the radius increases as temperature rises. For well deformed nuclei the shell effects disappear at around T similar to 3 MeV. This value of T is relatively higher as compared to the corresponding value of T (similar to 1.8 MeV) obtained in the Strutinsky-type calculations. This difference in the value of T is shown to be due to the use of the effective nucleon mass (< the bare mass) appearing in the Skyrme III interaction or emerging from the RMF Lagrangian