1. K - Pp bound system at J-PARC
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Eberhard Widmann, M. Iliescu, Haruhiko Outa, Hiroaki Ohnishi, K. Inoue, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Hiroyuki Noumi, Takashi Ishikawa, Makoto Tokuda, Masahiko Iwasaki, H. Tatsuno, Akihisa Toyoda, Toshimitsu Yamazaki, D. Tomono, M. Sato, Paul Kienle, Ken Suzuki, Michael Cargnelli, Kotaro Shirotori, Florin Sirghi, Hiroyuki Fujioka, Atsushi Sakaguchi, G. Beer, Oton Vazquez Doce, Shun Enomoto, Shinji Okada, Yue Ma, Hyoungchan Bhang, Mario Bragadireanu, Paul Buehler, K. Kato, Alessandro Scordo, T. Hashimoto, H. Kou, O. Morra, Johann Marton, Catalina Curceanu, Johannes Zmeskal, Y. Kato, Carolina Berucci, S. Kawasaki, Takatoshi Suzuki, Seonho Choi, L. Busso, S. Ajimura, Tomofumi Nagae, Masami Iio, Fuminori Sakuma, Y. Ishiguro, Qi Zhang, Y. Sada, Tomokazu Fukuda, Y. Fujiwara, Yutaka Mizoi, Kyo Tsukada, C. Guaraldo, Ryugo S. Hayano, H. Asano, Toshihiko Hiraiwa, Shigeru Ishimoto, Koki Kanno, Shoji Suzuki, Kristian Piscicchia, T. Yamaga, Kiyoshi Tanida, Hexi Shi, Diana Sirghi, Michiko Sekimoto, and Kenta Itahashi
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Physics ,Binding energy ,Bound state ,J-PARC ,State (functional analysis) ,Atomic physics - Abstract
The K¯NN bound system, symbolically denoted as “K−pp”, is the simplest K¯-nuclear bound system which has been widely discussed as a consequence of the strongly attractive K¯N interaction in I = 0 channels. Many theoretical works have pointed out the existence of the “K−pp” bound system, but the calculated properties such as the binding energy and the width spread out due to the uncertainty of the K¯N interaction below the K¯+N mass threshold. Experimentally, there are several reports on observation of a “K−pp” candidate with the binding energy of around 100 MeV, however, no definitive evidence was available so far. At J-PARC, we conducted a experimental search for the “K−pp” bound system using K− + 3He reaction at 1.0 GeV/c where the “K−pp” is expected to be directly produced via the (K−, n) reaction. We finally observed a bound state below the K− +p+p mass threshold in the Λpn final state, which can be interpreted as the “K− pp” bound state. The possible existence of the “K− pp” state is discussed from both aspects of production and decay.
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- 2020