The SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration aims to measure for the first time the shift and width induced on the 1s level of kaonic deuterium by the strong interaction. In the preliminary phase to the experiment, a test run using a Helium-4 target was performed to optimize the performance of the full experimental apparatus. This preliminary study highlighted the possibility to measure transition lines coming from intermediate mass kaonic atoms, such as kaonic carbon and kaonic aluminum. In order to measure transitions where strong interaction is manifesting at higher energies, out of the energy range of the SIDDHARTA-2 apparatus, the collaboration is testing a new detector system which exploits a novel compound semiconductor, the Cadmium Zinc Telluride. Tests are now running at DAΦNE to study the performance of this detector, exploring the possibility to build a dedicated setup.
@article{arxiv.2410.17921,
title = {Intermediate Mass Kaonic Atoms at DA$\Phi$NE},
author = {Francesco Artibani and Francesco Clozza and Massimiliano Bazzi and Cesidio Capoccia and Alberto Clozza and Luca De Paolis and Kamil Dulski and Carlo Guaraldo and Mihai Iliescu and Aleksander Khreptak and Simone Manti and Fabrizio Napolitano and Oton Vazquez Doce and Alessandro Scordo and Francesco Sgaramella and Florin Sirghi and Antonio Spallone and Michael Cargnelli and Johann Marton and Marlene Tuchler and Johannes Zmeskal and Damir Bosnar and Ivica Friscic and Mario Bragadireanu and Giacomo Borghi and Marco Carminati and Griseld Deda and Carlo Fiorini and Raffaele Del Grande and Masahiko Iwasaki and Pawel Moskal and Szymon Niedzwiecki and Michal Silarski and Magdalena Skurzok and Hiroaki Ohnishi and Kairo Toho and Diana Sirghi and Kristian Pischicchia and Catalina Curceanu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.17921},
year = {2024}
}