12–15 Oct 2009
Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP)
Europe/Berlin timezone

RA D: Search for complex resonances with strangeness and for bound states of kaons and nucleons

12 Oct 2009, 13:30
30m
Auditorium (Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP))

Auditorium

Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP)

Boltzmannstr. 2 85748 Garching

Speaker

Laura Fabbietti (TUM)

Description

Recently several experiments with Kaon beams, aiming to study the existence of kaonic bound states, have been carried out. Along with these experimental approaches, our Excellence Cluster Universe group has developed in the last two years a new method, based on proton induced reactions at intermediate kinetic energies (E=2-4 GeV), to approach the experimental quest of such states. In particular, we have performed two dedicated experiments at GSI with two different spectrometers to study the properties of the Lambda(1405) resonance and the possible existence of the pK-p bound state. These two objects might be linked in the production mechanism via the proton reactions. We report on the development of new detector systems, which have been constructed to achieve the measurements and on the analysis of the so far collected experimental data.

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