https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818101005
Low energy interaction studies of negative kaons in light nuclear targets by AMADEUS
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CENTRO FERMI - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche ‘Enrico Fermi’, Rome, Italy
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Rome, Italy
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Politecnico di Milano, Dip. di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Milano, Italy
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Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Magurele, Romania
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University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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INFN Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
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Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, Wien, Austria
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Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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Excellence Cluster ‘Origin and Structure of the Universe’, Garching, Germany
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Physik Department E12, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
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INFN Sezione di Roma I, Rome, Italy
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Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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RIKEN, The Institute of Physics and Chemical Research, Saitama, Japan
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Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kracow, Poland
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National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
* e-mail: kristian.piscicchia@lnf.infn.it
Published online: 25 June 2018
The AMADEUS collaboration is performing experimental investigations in the sector of the low energy strangeness hadron physics by taking advantage of the DAΦNE collider, which provides a unique source of monochromatic low-momentum kaons and exploiting the KLOE detector as an active target. The K− single and multi-nuclear absorption on H, 4He, 9Be and 12C, both at-rest and in-flight, are studied with the aim to determine the nature of the controversial Λ(1405), the non-resonant hyperon pion formation amplitude below the K̅N threshold, the yield and cross sections of K− multi-nucleon absorptions intimately connected to the antikaon multi-nucleon clusters properties and the K− scattering cross sections on light nuclear targets.
These studies have a strong impact on the non-perturbative strangeness QCD with implications ranging from nuclear physics to the equation of state of neutron stars.
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