Hypernuclear physics with the FINUDA spectrometer at DAΦNE

✍ Scribed by M. Agnello; P.A. Amaudruz; G. Beer; L. Benussi; M. Bertani; S. Bianco; E. Botta; T. Bressani; L. Busso; D. Calvo; P. Camerini; L. Celano; P. Cerello; G. D'Erasmo; F.L. Fabbri; A. Feliciello; A. Filippi; V. Filippini; E.M. Fiore; L. Fiore; P. Gianotti; M. Giardoni; D.R. Gill; N. Grion; C. Guaraldo; F. Iazzi; A. Lanaro; L. Lee; V. Lucherini; S. Marcello; G. Marciano; B. Minetti; P. Montagna; N. Mirfakhrai; O. Morra; A.A. Nozdrin; A. Olin; A. Pantaleo; V. Paticchio; A. Raimondo; E. Rossetto; A. Rotondi; R. Rui; P. Salvini; S. Sarwar; V. Serdyuk; G. Smith; L. Venturelli; R. Wheadon; S. Yen; A. Zenoni

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 503 KB
• Volume: 623
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(97)00446-6

✦ Synopsis

The FINUDA experiment will start data taking in 1997 to study hypernuclear physics by a large acceptance, high resolution magnetic spectrometer at DACNE, the Frascati Cfactory. Physics motivations and goals besides the expected performances are described.

1. THE FINUDA PHYSICS PROGRAM

The DAONE collider [1] is now under construction at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN. DA¢NE should run in 1997 at the center of mass energy of the ¢ meson with an initial luminosity of the order of L: = 1032 crn-2s -1 and a target designed luminosity one order of magnitude larger. The ¢ decays at rest into K+K -(49%), K°K~ (34%), pr (13%), 7r+~r-r ° (2.5%) and Y7 (1.3%). At the final luminosity 5000 ¢ per second will be provided, then DAcliNE can be considered a source of monochromatic, collinear, quantum-defined and tagged pairs of neutral and charged kaons.

FINUDA is essentially a Nucleax Physics experiment, the leading idea [3] to perform such an experiment at a collider was the possibility to stop the K-from the ~decay in a