Production of Double Hypernuclei with antiprotons at PANDA

Abstract

One of the goals of hypernuclear physics is to study the properties of baryon-baryon interaction including the strangeness contribution. Double hypernuclei can provide information about the $\Lambda\Lambda$ interaction in addition to the hyperon-hyperon and hyperon-nucleus one. A new technique for producing double hypernuclei using antiprotons is foreseen in the PANDA experiment at FAIR. Gamma ray spectroscopy is a way to measure the hyperon pair binding energy and the HPGe detectors can achieve the necessary resolution.Comment: ICHEP08 proceedings, Philadelphia 2008, 3 page