Hypernuclear studies at FAIR with P̄ANDA

✍ Scribed by A. Feliciello

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 449 KB
• Volume: 790
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2007.03.128

✦ Synopsis

The construction of the recently approved Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at GSI will allow to produce a large number of different double Λ-hypernucleus species by exploiting p-nucleus annihilations at energies just above the Ξ + Ξ -pair creation threshold. Among other physics goals, the PANDA (antiProton ANnihilation at DArmstadt) Collaboration is aiming to carry on an extensive program of high resolution γ-spectroscopy of such systems. The double Λ-hypernucleus production method and the proposed experimental setup are briefly discussed.