EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2018)

Studies of low-energy K- nuclear interactions by AMADEUS

  • Del Grande R.,
  • Bazzi M.,
  • Belloti G.,
  • Bragadireanu A.M.,
  • Bosnar D.,
  • Butt A.D.,
  • Cargnelli M.,
  • Curceanu C.,
  • De Paolis L.,
  • Fabbietti L.,
  • Fiorini C.,
  • Ghio F.,
  • Guaraldo C.,
  • Hayano R.S.,
  • Iliescu M.,
  • Iwasaki M.,
  • Levi Sandri P.,
  • Marton J.,
  • Miliucci M.,
  • Moskal P.,
  • Okada S.,
  • Pietreanu D.,
  • Piscicchia K.,
  • Scordo A.,
  • Shi H.,
  • Silarski M.,
  • Sirghi D.L.,
  • Sirghi F.,
  • Skurzok M.,
  • Spallone A.,
  • Vazquez Doce O.,
  • Widmann E.,
  • Wycech S.,
  • Zmeskal J.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818202035
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 182
p. 02035

Abstract

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The goal of the AMADEUS experiment is to shed light on unsolved fundamental issues in the non-perturbative strangeness QCD sector through the study of lowenergy K- hadronic interactions with light nuclear targets. The main open questions are the controversial nature of the Δ(1405) state, which is investigated in hyperon-pion correlation studies, and the possible existence of exotic antikaon multi-nucleon clusters, whose search in K- induced reactions is intimately related to the studies of the K- multi-nucleon absorption processes in hyperon-nucleon/nucleus channels. The DAΦNE collider at the INFN-LNF provides unique monochromatic low-momentum kaons from the φ meson decay almost at-rest, suitable for the AMADEUS studies. The KLOE detector is exploited as an active target, in order to obtain excellent acceptance and resolution data for K- nuclear capture on H, 4He, 9Be and 12C, both at-rest and in-flight.