EPJ Web of Conferences 66, 09004 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20146609004

Unveiling the strangeness secrets: low-energy kaon-nucleon/nuclei interactions studies at DAΦNE

¹ INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma), Italy
² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
³ Stefan-Meyer-Institut für subatomare Physik, Vienna, Austria Univeristy of Zagreb, Croatia
⁴ Univeristy of Zagreb, Croatia
⁵ Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Magurele, Romania
⁶ Excellence Cluster ‘Universe’, Technische Universität Münchn, Garching, Germany
⁷ Politecnico di Milano, Sezione di Elettronica, Milano, Itay
⁸ INFN Sez. di Roma I and Inst. Superiore di Sanita, Roma, Italy
⁹ The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
¹⁰ RIKEN, The Institute of Physics and Chemical Research, Saitama, Japan
¹¹ Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro e Studie Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, Roma, Italy
¹² University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

^a e-mail: catalina.curceanu@lnf.infn.it

Published online: 20 March 2014

Abstract

The DAΦNE electron-positron collider at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN, Italy has made available a unique quality low-energy negatively charged kaons “beam”, which is used to unveil the secrets of the kaon-nucleon/nuclei interactions at low energies by the SIDDHARTA-2 and AMADEUS experiments. SIDDHARTA has already performed unprecedented precision measurements of kaonic atoms, and is being presently upgraded, as SIDDHARTA-2, to approach new frontiers. The AMADEUS experiment plans to perform in the coming years precision measurements on kaon-nuclei interactions at low-energies, to study the possible formation of kaonic nuclei, of the Λ(1405) and of many other processes involving strangeness.