EPJ Web of Conferences (Mar 2014)

Unveiling the strangeness secrets: low-energy kaon-nucleon/nuclei interactions studies at DAΦNE

  • Curceanu C.,
  • Bazzi M.,
  • Beer G.,
  • Berucci C.,
  • Bosnar D.,
  • Bragadireanu A.M.,
  • Cargnelli M.,
  • Clozza A.,
  • D’Uffizi A.,
  • Fabbietti L.,
  • Fiorini C.,
  • Ghio F.,
  • Guaraldo C.,
  • Hayano R.S.,
  • Iliescu M.,
  • Ishiwatari T.,
  • Iwasaki M.,
  • Levi Sandri P.,
  • Marton J.,
  • Okada S.,
  • Pietreanu D.,
  • Piscicchia K.,
  • Poli Lener M.,
  • Ponta T.,
  • Quaglia R.,
  • Romero Vidal A.,
  • Sbardella E.,
  • Scordo A.,
  • Shi H.,
  • Sirghi D.L.,
  • Sirghi F.,
  • Tatsuno H.,
  • Tucaković I.,
  • Vazquez Doce O.,
  • Widmann E.,
  • Zmeskal J.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20146609004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 66
p. 09004

Abstract

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The DAΦNE electron-positron collider at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN, Italy has made available a unique quality low-energy negatively charged kaons “beam”, which is used to unveil the secrets of the kaon-nucleon/nuclei interactions at low energies by the SIDDHARTA-2 and AMADEUS experiments. SIDDHARTA has already performed unprecedented precision measurements of kaonic atoms, and is being presently upgraded, as SIDDHARTA-2, to approach new frontiers. The AMADEUS experiment plans to perform in the coming years precision measurements on kaon-nuclei interactions at low-energies, to study the possible formation of kaonic nuclei, of the Λ(1405) and of many other processes involving strangeness.