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We study the antikaon potential at finite momentum for proton and neutron nuclear matter. Our approach is based on the momentum dependence of the real part of the total $K^-N$ scattering amplitude, which is fixed in free space by…
We consider $K^-$ nucleon elastic and inelastic scattering in isospin symmetric nuclear matter. It is found that the proper description of the $\Lambda(1405)$ resonance structure in nuclear matter requires a self-consistent approach. Then…
An effective low energy Lagrangian density is applied to nuclear $K^-$-dynamics. The free parameters, local s-wave couplings and SU(3)-symmetry constrained range terms are adjusted to describe elastic and inelastic $K^-$-nucleon scattering…
The effects of the $\Lambda$(1405) ($\Lambda^\ast$) on the structure of the multi-antikaonic nucleus (MKN), in which several $K^-$ mesons are embedded to form deeply bound states, are considered based on chiral symmetry combined with a…
We evaluate the antikaon spectral density in isospin symmetric nuclear matter. The in-medium antikaon-nucleon scattering process and the antikaon propagation is treated in a self consistent and relativistic manner where a maximally…
We extract the antikaon potential from differential data on elastic $K^-A$ scattering within Glauber theory at an antikaon momentum of 800 MeV/c. The $K^-N$ cross section at densities up to 0.1 $fm^3$ is found to be close to the value given…
The strong interaction between an antikaon and a nucleon is at the origin of various interesting phenomena in kaon-nuclear systems. In particular, the interaction in the isospin $I=0$ channel is sufficiently attractive to generate a…
We study the $\Lambda(1405)$ resonance with $I(J^{P})=0(1/2^{-}) $ in the context of the pentaquark hypothesis in the nuclear medium. For the investigation of the influence of the nuclear medium on the physical parameters of…
We perform a combined analysis of antikaon-nucleon scattering cross sections and the recent SIDDHARTA kaonic hydrogen data in the framework of a coupled-channel Bethe-Salpeter approach at next-to-leading order in the chiral expansion of the…
We investigate the interaction of an antikaon ($K^-$) with the $^{6}$Li nucleus, described as an $\alpha + d$ cluster system. The study aims to explore the formation of the $\Lambda(1405)$ resonance through the $K^-d$ subsystem in the…
S-wave $K^-p$ scattering into various channels near threshold are analyzed in heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory with $\Lambda (1405)$ introduced as an independent field. This is the approach that predicted the critical density…
We have studied the structure of K- pp by solving this system in a variational treatment, starting from ansatz that Lambda(1405) is a K-p quasi-bound state, Lambda* with mass 1405 MeV/c2. The structure of K-pp reveals a molecular feature,…
We review the present status of the experimental and theoretical developments in the field of strangeness in nuclei and neutron stars. We start by discussing the $\bar K N$ interaction, that is governed by the presence of the…
The s-wave $K^{\pm}N$ scattering amplitude is computed up to one-loop order corresponding to next-to-next-to-leading order (or N$^2$LO in short) with a heavy-baryon effective chiral Lagrangian. Constraining the low-energy constants by…
We examine the role of the $\Lambda(1405)$ in kaon-nucleon scattering lengths using chiral perturbation theory. The leading nonanalytic SU(3) corrections reduce the coupling of the $\Lambda (1405)$ to $KN$ compared to $\Sigma\pi$. S-wave…
We investigate in-medium corrections to the branching ratio in K- absorption at rest and their effect on the (positively and negatively) charged pion spectrum. The in-medium corrections are due to Pauli blocking, which arises if the…
The mechanism for the formation of the $\Lambda(1405)$ resonance is studied in a chiral quark model that includes quark-meson as well as contact (four point) interactions. The negative-parity $S$-wave scattering amplitudes for strangeness…
The properties of the antikaons in nuclear matter are investigated from a chiral unitary approach which incorporates the s- and p-waves of the ${\bar K}N$ interaction. To obtain the in-medium meson-baryon amplitudes we include, in a…
The s-wave meson-nucleon interaction in the S=-1 sector is studied by means of a coupled-channel Lippmann Schwinger equation, using the lowest order chiral Lagrangian and a cut off to regularize the loop integrals. The position and width of…
Using a phenomenological \={K}N potential which reproduces $\Lambda$(1405) as an I=0 bound state of \={K}N, we investigated deeply bound kaonic nuclei, ppnK$^-$ and $^8$BeK$^-$, with the method of Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics. Our…