1. Nuclear capture at rest of Ξ− hyperons
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C.H. Hahn, A. Masuoka, Kenichi Imai, Y. Nagase, N. Yasuda, M. Ukai, Kimio Niwa, J. S. Song, C. S. Yoon, Yoshihiro Sato, H. Okabe, Saewoong Bahk, Yoshitaka Itow, I. G. Park, Takashi Z. Nakano, Kazuhiro Tanaka, T. Kuze, Ryuichi Takashima, Seok Kim, H. Funahashi, Yasuyuki Matsuda, A. Matsui, N. Ushida, S. H. Chung, C. O. Kim, Kazuma Nakazawa, J. Y. Kim, H. Tajima, K. Kodama, H. Togawa, C. Nagoshi, Y. Maeda, R. Ozaki, T. Tsunemi, K. Sakai, Hirotaka Takahashi, M. Nakamura, Akira Masaike, B. D. Park, K. Hoshino, H. Oda, T. Jin-ya, M. Hanabata, I. Tezuka, Fujio Takeutchi, T. Iijima, M. Sugimoto, S. Hirata, T. Sasaki, H. Shibuya, T. Hara, J. Yokota, Hajime Shimizu, Masaharu Ieiri, Shigeki Aoki, Takashi Watanabe, S. Ono, S. Nakanishi, M. Kazuno, and M. Teranaka
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Nuclear physics ,Physics ,Nuclear reaction ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle decay ,Meson ,Branching fraction ,Nuclear emulsion ,Strangeness ,Atomic physics ,Sigma baryon ,Xi baryon - Abstract
An emulsion-counter hybrid experiment (KEK E176) was carried out to search for double strangeness systems such as double- Λ hypernuclei and H -dibaryons. More than 10% of Ξ − hyperons produced in the (K − , K + ) reaction were brought to rest in the nuclear emulsion. We have obtained 98 candidate events of nuclear capture at rest of Ξ − hyperons which are described in this report. Among those, four events were identified as sequential weak decay of double- Λ hypernuclei. The binding energies of Ξ − -( 12 C, 14 N and 16 O) states have been estimated for two events which emit twin single- Λ hypernuclei back to back from the capture point. The Σ − p decay vertex of an H -dibaryon was searched for near the capture point and no evidence was observed. Upper limits for the branching ratio of H emission are 5–10% for a lifetime less than 0.1 ns at the 90% confidence level. The trapping probabilities of single and double strangeness to a nuclear fragment following Ξ − capture at rest have been studied.
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- 2009