1. Electroproduction of kaons and light hypernuclei
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John C. Mitchell, Y. Liang, T. Eden, Thomas O'Neill, D. F. Geesaman, R. E. Segel, L. Ewell, J. Cha, H. Bitao, E. Christy, Ketevi Assamagan, M. Sarsour, J. Crowder, L. Cole, J. W. Price, S. Danagoulian, Dipangkar Dutta, H. Juengst, H. Yamaguchi, H.T. Fortune, D. Koltenuk, N. Chant, J. H. Liu, D. Abbott, R. Asaturyan, D. G. Meekins, W. Hinton, T. Miyoshi, J. Roche, Brian Raue, Paul Gueye, W. U. Boeglin, J. Reinhold, Pete Markowitz, J.-O. Hansen, L. G. Tang, R. Mohring, R. Sawafta, K. Garrow, J. P. Schiffer, C. E. Keppel, C. J. Martoff, C. Cothran, John Arrington, Kevin Bailey, C. Yan, B. Zihlmann, H. C. Fenker, B. Terburg, C. S. Armstrong, P. Roos, Y. Sato, Rolf Ent, S. Tajima, B. Mueller, P. Ambrozewicz, G. Savage, S. Stepanyan, D. S. Brown, A. Uzzle, O. K. Baker, Avraham Klein, A. Cochran, H. Mkrtchyan, A. Semenov, L. Gan, W. J. Cummings, G. Collins, F. Duncan, K. Gustafsson, F. Dohrmann, Y. Fujii, R. Madey, M. Zeier, J. A. Dunne, A. Ahmidouch, R. D. Carlini, S. A. Wood, A. F. Lung, D. J. Mack, L. Yuan, S. Beedoe, M. Elaasar, Stephen Avery, G. Niculescu, I. Niculescu, D. Potterveld, V. Tadevosian, S. Mtingwa, H. Breuer, K. Hafidi, Haiyan Gao, H. E. Jackson, P. E. Reimer, B. Zeidman, and (Astro)-Particles Physics
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Nuclear physics ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Deuterium ,Production (computer science) ,Electron ,Nucleon ,Fundamental interaction - Abstract
A detailed investigation of the basic hyperon-nucleon interactions in nuclei is one of the aims of Experiment 91-016, approved with high priority at CEBAF, to study the electroproduction of kaons on targets of deuterium, {sup 3}He, and {sup 4}He. Inasmuch as both the electron and K{sup +} are particles that interact relatively weakly with nucleons, electroproduction of light hypernuclei provides a low-distortion method for investigating the fundamental interactions between nucleons, {Alpha}`s, and {Epsilon}`s in few-body systems. In particular, the (e,e`K{sup +}) reactions on cryogenic targets of D, {sup 3}He, and {sup 4}He will be studied at incident electron energies near 3 GeV with coincident detection of the emergent e and K{sup +} in the HMS and SOS magnetic spectrometers in Hall C. Construction of the He target, operating at {approximately}10 atm, {approximately}50 K and capable of dissipating {approximately}30 W, is expected to be complete prior to commencement of production runs in Hall C. The first data runs for E91-016, expected to begin late in FY 1995, will also be the basis for a doctoral thesis at Hampton University. In addition to providing new information on the phases of hyperon-nucleon interactions, measurements of cross sections for hypernuclear formation, and interference phenomena,more » the data may provide evidence for the presence of bound {Epsilon}`s and strange di-baryonic states that are the subject of considerable theoretical discussion.« less
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- 2001
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