Seminar on Strong Interaction:"Hadron Physics with Antiprotons"

by Diego Bettoni (INFN Ferrara)

Monday 1 Feb 2016, 13:30 → 14:30 Europe/Berlin

Seminar Room 3344 (Physics Department (TUM))

One of the most challenging and fascinating goals of modern physics is the achievement of a fully quantitative understanding of the strong interaction and QCD (Quantum Chromodynamics), which is the subject of hadron physics. Antiprotons are an excellent tool to address the open problems in this field: the antiproton-proton channel couples very strongly to the gluonic components of produced hadrons and it allows resonant formation of a wide range of quantum numbers thus allowing spectros-copic studies with very high statistics and precision. In addition to that antiproton-proton collisions allow the study of hadron structure (form factors, structure functions) as well as hadronic interactions. In this talk I will present an overview of results achieved in past antiproton-proton experiments and I will discuss future opportunities with the PANDA experiment at FAIR.