https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201613001017
Precision spectroscopy of pionic atoms and chiral symmetry in nuclei
1 Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
2 JINA and Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
3 Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
4 Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
5 GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany
6 Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
7 Department of Physics, Nara Women’s University, Nara 630-8506, Japan
8 Department of Regional Environment, Tottori University, Tottori 680-8551, Japan
9 Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
10 Stefan Meyer Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
* e-mail: itahashi@riken.jp
Published online: 29 November 2016
We conduct an experimental project to make spectroscopy of deeply bound pionic atoms systematically over wide range of nuclei. We aim at studying the strong interaction in the low energy region, which has close connection to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and its partial restoration in nuclear matter. First experimental results show improved spectral resolution and much better statistical sensitivity than previous experiments. Present status of the experiment is reported.
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