1. Measurement of H Λ 4 and He Λ 4 binding energy in Au+Au collisions at s NN = 3 GeV
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Collaboration, STAR, Abdallah, MS, Aboona, BE, Adam, J, Adamczyk, L, Adams, JR, Adkins, JK, Aggarwal, I, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Anderson, DM, Aschenauer, EC, Ashraf, MU, Atchison, J, Bairathi, V, Baker, W, Ball, JG, Barish, K, Behera, A, Bellwied, R, Bhagat, P, Bhasin, A, Bielcik, J, Bielcikova, J, Brandenburg, JD, Cai, XZ, Caines, H, de la Barca Sánchez, M Calderón, Cebra, D, Chakaberia, I, Chaloupka, P, Chan, BK, Chang, Z, Chatterjee, A, Chattopadhyay, S, Chen, D, Chen, J, Chen, JH, Chen, X, Chen, Z, Cheng, J, Choudhury, S, Christie, W, Chu, X, Crawford, HJ, Csanád, M, Daugherity, M, Deppner, IM, Dhamija, A, Di Carlo, L, Didenko, L, Dixit, P, Dong, X, Drachenberg, JL, Duckworth, E, Dunlop, JC, Engelage, J, Eppley, G, Esumi, S, Evdokimov, O, Ewigleben, A, Eyser, O, Fatemi, R, Fawzi, FM, Fazio, S, Feng, CJ, Feng, Y, Finch, E, Fisyak, Y, Francisco, A, Fu, C, Gagliardi, CA, Galatyuk, T, Geurts, F, Ghimire, N, Gibson, A, Gopal, K, Gou, X, Grosnick, D, Gupta, A, Guryn, W, Hamed, A, Han, Y, Harabasz, S, Harasty, MD, Harris, JW, Harrison, H, He, S, He, W, He, XH, He, Y, Heppelmann, S, Herrmann, N, Hoffman, E, Holub, L, Hu, C, Hu, Q, Hu, Y, Huang, H, and Huang, HZ
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Nuclear and Plasma Physics ,Synchrotrons and Accelerators ,Physical Sciences ,Mathematical Physics ,Astronomical and Space Sciences ,Atomic ,Molecular ,Nuclear ,Particle and Plasma Physics ,Nuclear & Particles Physics ,Mathematical sciences ,Physical sciences - Abstract
Measurements of mass and Λ binding energy of Λ4H and Λ4He in Au+Au collisions at sNN=3 GeV are presented, with an aim to address the charge symmetry breaking (CSB) problem in hypernuclei systems with atomic number A = 4. The Λ binding energies are measured to be 2.22±0.06(stat.)±0.14(syst.) MeV and 2.38±0.13(stat.)±0.12(syst.) MeV for Λ4H and Λ4He, respectively. The measured Λ binding-energy difference is 0.16±0.14(stat.)±0.10(syst.) MeV for ground states. Combined with the γ-ray transition energies, the binding-energy difference for excited states is −0.16±0.14(stat.)±0.10(syst.) MeV, which is negative and comparable to the value of the ground states within uncertainties. These new measurements on the Λ binding-energy difference in A = 4 hypernuclei systems are consistent with the theoretical calculations that result in ΔBΛ4(1exc+)≈−ΔBΛ4(0g.s.+)
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- 2022