H-particle searches using kaons and protons

✍ Scribed by B. Bassalleck

• Book ID: 104336977
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 478 KB
• Volume: 639
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(98)00305-4

✦ Synopsis

A summary is given of the present status (November 1997) of recent and ongoing experimental H-dibaryon searches at the Brookhaven AGS and at KEK. Since other papers at this conference discuss heavy ion-induced H production, this summary is restricted to experiments using kaons or protons as projectiles. Included are direct searches either via H production or via detection of H-decay products. The latest experiments searching for S = -2 hypernuclei, with their indirect implications on the existence of the H, are also mentioned. Several experimental results have recently been published, and these results make the existence of a deeply-bound H appear very unlikely.