The HypHI project: Hypernuclear spectroscopy with stable heavy ion beams and rare isotope beams at GSI and FAIR

The HypHI collaboration aims to perform a precise hypernuclear spectroscopy with stable heavy ion beams and rare isotope beams at GSI and fAIR in order to study hypernuclei at extreme isospin, especially neutron rich hypernuclei to look insight hyperon-nucleon interactions in the neutron rich medium, and hypernuclear magnetic moments to investigate baryon properties in the nuclei. We are currently preparing for the first experiment with $^6$Li and $^{12}$C beams at 2 AGeV to demonstrate the feasibility of a precise hypernuclear spectroscopy by identifying $^{3}_{\Lambda}$H, $^{4}_{\Lambda}$H and $^{5}_{\Lambda}$He. The first physics experiment on these hypernuclei is planned for 2009. In the present document, an overview of the HypHI project and the details of this first experiment will be discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, French-Japanese symposium 2008, Paris (France

Event reconstruction methods for the HypHI Phase 0 experiment at GSI

The first experiment of the HypHI project, Phase 0, at GSI-Darmstadt performs the feasibility study of precise hypernuclear spectroscopy with heavy ion induced reactions by using the collision of (6)Li at 2 A GeV on a (12)C target. In preparation of the Phase 0 experiment, simulation studies have been performed with a dedicated event reconstruction procedure. Details of this procedure will be discussed in this paper as well as the physics motivation of the Phase 0 and the experimental setup used during simulations. Expected results of the experiment will also be discussed. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved