EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2019)

Spectroscopy of kaonic atoms at DAFNE and J-PARC

  • Marton J.,
  • Amirkhan A.,
  • Baniahmad A.,
  • Bazzi M.,
  • Bellotti G.,
  • Berucci C.,
  • Bosnar D.,
  • Bragadireanu M.,
  • Cargnelli M.,
  • Curceanu C.,
  • Dawood Butt A.,
  • Del Grande R.,
  • Fabbietti L.,
  • Fiorini C.,
  • Ghio F.,
  • Guaraldo C.,
  • Iliescu M.,
  • Iwasaki M.,
  • Levi Sandri P.,
  • Miliucci M.,
  • Moskal P.,
  • Niedźwiecki S.,
  • Okada S.,
  • Pietreanu D.,
  • Piscicchia K.,
  • Shi H.,
  • Silarski M.,
  • Sirghi D.,
  • Sirghi F.,
  • Skurzok M.,
  • Spallone A.,
  • Tatsuno H.,
  • Vazquez Doce O.,
  • Widmann E.,
  • Zmeskal J.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201919903004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 199
p. 03004

Abstract

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The interaction of antikaons (K−) with nucleons and nuclei in the low-energy regime represents a very active research field in hadron physics. A unique and rather direct experimental access to the antikaon-nucleon scattering lengths is provided by precision X-ray spectroscopy of transitions in low-lying states in the lightest kaonic atoms (i.e. kaonic hydrogen and deuterium). In the SIDDHARTA experiment at the electron-positron collider DAFNE of LNFINFN we measured the most precise values of the strong interaction observables in conic hydrogen. The strong interaction on the 1s ground state of the electromagnetically bound K-p atom causes an energy shift and broadening of the 1s state. SIDDHARTA will extend the spectroscopy to kaonic deuterium to get access to the antikaon-neutron interaction and thus the isospin dependent scattering lengths. At J-PARC a kaon beam is used in a complementary experiment with a different setup for spectroscopy of kaonic deuterium atoms. The talk will give an overview of the of the upcoming experiments SIDDHARTA and the complementary experiment at J-PARC.Furthermore, the implications of the experiments for the theory of low-energy strong interaction with strangeness will be discussed.