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A critical view on the deeply bound K^- pp system

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We briefly review the situation around the claimed deeply bound K^- states in different recent experiments and concentrate particularly on the state K^- pp advocated by the FINUDA collaboration in nuclear K^- absorption. We perform a theoretical simulation of the process and show that the peak in the Lambda p spectrum that was interpreted as a deep K^- pp bound state corresponds mostly to the process K^- p p --> Lambda p followed by final state interactions of the produced particles with the daughter nucleus.

Cite

@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0601013,
  title  = {A critical view on the deeply bound K^- pp system},
  author = {V. K. Magas and E. Oset and A. Ramos and H. Toki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0601013},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, 14 figures

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