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Observation of the HeΛ7 hypernucleus by the (e, e K+) reaction

  • S. N. Nakamura
  • , A. Matsumura
  • , Y. Okayasu
  • , T. Seva
  • , V. M. Rodriguez
  • , P. Baturin
  • , L. Yuan
  • , A. Acha
  • , A. Ahmidouch
  • , D. Androic
  • , A. Asaturyan
  • , R. Asaturyan
  • , O. K. Baker
  • , F. Benmokhtar
  • , P. Bosted
  • , R. Carlini
  • , C. Chen
  • , M. Christy
  • , L. Cole
  • , S. Danagoulian
  • A. Daniel, V. Dharmawardane, K. Egiyan, M. Elaasar, R. Ent, H. Fenker, Y. Fujii, M. Furic, L. Gan, D. Gaskell, A. Gasparian, E. F. Gibson, T. Gogami, P. Gueye, Y. Han, O. Hashimoto, E. Hiyama, D. Honda, T. Horn, B. Hu, Ed V. Hungerford, C. Jayalath, M. Jones, K. Johnston, N. Kalantarians, H. Kanda, M. Kaneta, F. Kato, S. Kato, D. Kawama, C. Keppel, K. J. Lan, W. Luo, D. MacK, K. Maeda, S. Malace, A. Margaryan, G. Marikyan, P. Markowitz, T. Maruta, N. Maruyama, T. Miyoshi, A. Mkrtchyan, H. Mkrtchyan, S. Nagao, T. Navasardyan, G. Niculescu, M. I. Niculescu, H. Nomura, K. Nonaka, A. Ohtani, M. Oyamada, N. Perez, T. Petkovic, S. Randeniya, J. Reinhold, J. Roche, Y. Sato, E. K. Segbefia, N. Simicevic, G. Smith, Y. Song, M. Sumihama, V. Tadevosyan, T. Takahashi, L. Tang, K. Tsukada, V. Tvaskis, W. Vulcan, S. Wells, S. A. Wood, C. Yan, S. Zhamkochyan

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Abstract

An experiment with a newly developed high-resolution kaon spectrometer and a scattered electron spectrometer with a novel configuration was performed in Hall C at Jefferson Lab. The ground state of a neutron-rich hypernucleus, HeΛ7, was observed for the first time with the (e, e K+) reaction with an energy resolution of ∼0.6 MeV. This resolution is the best reported to date for hypernuclear reaction spectroscopy. The HeΛ7 binding energy supplies the last missing information of the A=7, T=1 hypernuclear isotriplet, providing a new input for the charge symmetry breaking effect of the ΛN potential.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012502
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume110
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2 2013
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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