Related papers: Interaction of K^- mesons with light nuclei

We conduct a search for the 4He-eta bound state with the WASA-at-COSY facility via the measurement of the excitation function for the reaction dd->3Heppi-. In first experiment performed in June 2008, we used COSY deuteron beam with a slowly…

A K \bar{K} N system with I=1/2 and J^P=1/2^+ is investigated with non-relativistic three-body calculations by using effective \bar K N, K \bar K and KN interactions. The \bar K N interaction describes the Lambda(1405) as a \bar K N…

We study the scattering parameters of the \(K^+\bar{K}^0\) system through the analysis of the \(D^+\to\bar{K}^0\pi^+\eta\) reaction, aiming at determining the scattering length \(a\) and effective range \(r_0\) of the \(K^+\bar{K}^0\)…

Multiple-scattering approximations to Faddeev calculations of the K^- d scattering length are reviewed and compared with published Kbar-N-N <--> pi-Y-N fully reactive Faddeev calculations. A new multiple-scattering approximation which goes…

Light $s$-shell hypernuclei ($^{3,4}_{\Lambda}\text{H}$) and their ground-state properties are crucial benchmarks in hypernuclear physics. In particular, comparing the production cross sections of $^{3}_{\Lambda}\text{H}$ and…

Differential production cross sections of K- and K+ mesons have been measured in Ni+Ni and Au+Au collisions at a beam energy of 1.5 AGeV. The K-/K+ ratio is found to be nearly constant as a function of the collision centrality and system…

Measurements of the t-t and p-t coincidence events in the $^3$H ($\alpha$, ttp) reaction have been obtained at $E_\alpha$ incident energy of 67.2 MeV. Various appropriate angular configurations of detectors were chosen in order to observe…

New calculations of the quasi-bound state in the $K^- pp$ system using Faddeev-type equations in AGS form with coupled $\bar{K}NN$ and $\pi \Sigma N$ channels were performed. A chiral $\bar{K}N$ potential together with phenomenological…

Complementary measurements have been performed for the level density and gamma strength function in 162-Dy using inelastic 3-He scattering. Comparing these results to previous measurements using the 163-Dy(3-He,alpha) reaction, reveals that…

We investigate the properties of the excited state of $^4\mathrm{He}$, $^4\mathrm{He}^*$, within the framework of Efimov physics and its connection to the unitary point of the nuclear interaction. We explore two different approaches to…

Nuclear interactions play a key role for the stability of atomic nuclei and stellar environments. Successful parametrization and models of these interactions, developed in the last decades, accurately reproduce all the proton and neutron…

The astrophysically important 3He(a,g)7Be reaction was studied at high energies where the available experimental data are in contradiction. A thin window 3He gas cell was used and the cross section was measured with the activation method.…

We calculate the ground state binding energies of the light nuclei such as 4He, 6Li, 12C and 14N by considering the effect of three-body nucleon-nucleon interaction. We use the effective twobody potential obtained from the lowest order…

The potential between static-light mesons forming a meson-meson or a meson-antimeson system is calculated in quenched and unquenched SU(3) gauge theory. We use the Sheikholeslami-Wohlert action and statistical estimators of light quark…

We have measured the mass diffusion coefficient D of 3He in superfluid 4He at temperatures lower than were previously possible. The experimental technique utilizes scintillation light produced when neutron react with 3He nuclei, and allows…

The total cross sections of the processes 4He(gamma,p)3H and 4He(gamma,n)3He are calculated. For these exclusive reactions we investigate the question of the giant dipole peak height, but we also consider higher energies. The calculation…

We develop a general framework to study KKbar threshold phenomena with resonances f0, a0 and K+K- atom included. Based on this formalism we predict that the production of the K+K- atom in p+d=3He+X and similar reactions exhi- bits a drastic…

The binding energies of the five bound rotational levels $J=0-4$ in the highest vibrational level $v=14$ in the X$^1\Sigma_g^+$ ground electronic state of H$_2$ were measured in a three-step ultraviolet-laser experiment. Two-photon…

A study of inelastic scattering and single-particle transfer reactions was performed by an alpha beam at 63 MeV on a 9$Be target. Angular distributions of the differential cross sections for the 9Be(4He,4He')9Be*, 9Be(4He,3He)10Be and…

We have observed an intense high-energy component in an inclusive $^4$He(stopped $K^-$, $d$) spectrum. For back-to-back $\Lambda d$ pairs a prominent event cluster has been found just below the $m_{^4\textrm{He}}+m_{K^-}-m_{n}$ mass…