https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20146609002
Study of the Λ(1116) interaction in cold nuclear matter
Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching
a e-mail: oliver.arnold@mytum.de
Published online: 20 March 2014
The interaction of Λ hyperons with baryonic nuclear matter at saturation density is expected to be attractive. The interaction strength was extracted from hypernuclei data. A different approach to obtain the potential depth of the Λ mean-field potential is to compare experimental data with transport simulations. We analyze experimental data of Λ hyperons measured with the HADES detector in p+93Nb reactions with a kinetic beam energy of 3.5 GeV carried by the proton. The high statistic of measured Λ hyperons allows us to perform a double differential analysis in Lorentz-invariant observables of transverse momentum and rapidity. We present the analysis method and a comparison with simulations.
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