38 research outputs found
Pentaquarks - Facts and Mysteries or Sisyphus at Work
Recent evidence for pentaquark baryons is critically reviewed in the light of
new high statistics data. The search of the WA89 experiment for the
is presented in detail and consequences of its
non-observations are discussed.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figure
Hypernuclei - the next decade
We are at the verge of a new impact from hypernuclear experiments planned or
already operative at various laboratories all over the world. The complementary
of these different experimental approaches to hypernuclei provides a wide basis
for a comprehensive understanding of strange hadrons in cold hadronic matter.
High precision studies of light hypernuclei, spectroscopy of double
nuclei and the properties of antihyperons in nuclei are
examples for the outstanding challenges for hypernuclei research in the next
decade.Comment: Zakopane Conference on Nuclear Physics: Extremes of the Nuclear
Landscape, 45th Zakopane Schools of Physics, 30. August- 5. September 2010,
Zakopane, Polan
Exclusive meson production at COMPASS
We explore the feasibility to study exclusive meson production (EMP) in hard
muon-proton scattering at the COMPASS experiment. These measurements constrain
the off-forward parton distributions (OFPD's) of the proton, which are related
to the quark orbital contribution to the proton spin.Comment: Workshop on Exclusive and Semi-Exclusive Processes at High Momentum
Transfer, Jefferson Lab, 20-22 Mai 199
Multifragmentation near the threshold
We investigate the onset of multifragmentation employing an improved version of the N-body ‘‘quantum’’ molecular-dynamics approach. We study in detail the reaction 18O+197Au at 84 MeV/nucleon and find good agreement between the calculated results and the data for the double-differential proton cross section, the mass yield, the multiplicity, the kinetic energy of the fragments, and even for the kinematic correlations between intermediate mass fragments (IMF’s), which have been measured in this experiment for the first time. We observe a strong correlation between the impact parameter and both the size of the target remnant as well as the average proton multiplicity. Hence both observables can be used to determine the impact parameter experimentally. The IMF’s come from the most central collisions. The calculations confirm the experimental result that they are not emitted from an equilibrated system. Although the inclusive energy spectra look thermal, we cannot identify an impact parameter-independent isotropically emitting source. Even in central collisions global equilibrium is not observed. We find that multifragment emission at this bombarding energy is caused by a process very similar to that proposed in the macroscopic cold multifragmentation model. Thus it has a different origin than at beam energies around 1 GeV/nucleon, although the mass yield has an almost identical slope
Hypernuclear Physics at PANDA
Hypernuclear research will be one of the main topics addressed by the PANDA
experiment at the planned Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research FAIR at
Darmstadt, Germany. A copious production of Xi-hyperons at a dedicated internal
target in the stored anti-proton beam is expected, which will enable the
high-precision gamma-spectroscopy of double strange systems for the first time.
In addition to the general purpose PANDA setup, the hypernuclear experiments
require an active secondary target of silicon layers and absorber material as
well as high purity germanium (HPGe) crystals as gamma-detectors. The design of
the setup and the development of these detectors is progressing: a first HPGe
crystal with a new electromechanical cooling system was prepared and the
properties of a silicon strip detector as a prototype to be used in the
secondary target were studied. Simultaneously to the hardware projects,
detailed Monte Carlo simulations were performed to predict the yield of
particle stable hypernuclei. With the help of the Monte Carlo a procedure for
Lambda-Lambda-hypernuclei identification by the detection and correlation of
the weak decay pions was developed.Comment: prepared for the International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related
Topics (EXA2011), Vienna, Sept. 5-9, 201
Many Facets of Strangeness Nuclear Physics with Stored Antiprotons
Stored antiprotons beams in the GeV range represent a unparalleled factory
for hyperon-antihyperon pairs. Their outstanding large production probability
in antiproton collisions will open the floodgates for a series of new studies
of strange hadronic systems with unprecedented precision. The behavior of
hyperons and -- for the first time -- of antihyperons in nuclear systems can be
studied under well controlled conditions. The exclusive production of
and pairs in antiproton-nucleus
interactions probe the neutron and proton distribution in the nuclear periphery
and will help to sample the neutron skin. For the first time, high resolution
-spectroscopy of doubly strange nuclei will be performed, thus
complementing measurements of ground state decays of double hypernuclei with
mesons beams at J-PARC or possible decays of particle unstable hypernuclei in
heavy ion reactions. High resolution spectroscopy of multistrange -atoms
are feasible and even the production of -atoms will be within reach.
The latter might open the door to the =3 world in strangeness nuclear
physics, by the study of the hadronic -nucleus interaction and the
very first measurement of a spectroscopic quadrupole moment of a baryon which
will be a benchmark test for our understanding of hadron structure.Comment: Proceddings of HYP201
Delayed Pion Spectroscopy of Hypernuclei
New possibilities of hypernuclear studies at modern electron accelerators based on recently developed radio frequency photomultiplier tubes are discussed