Open problems and future prospects for hypernuclear physics
We appraise the current status of our knowledge of hypernuclear structure physics, and emphasize the unsolved problems. The prospects for significant advances in high resolution hypernuclear spectroscopy with CW electron beams at CEBAF or intense pion beams at the proposed PILAC facility at LPF are discussed. These facilities could greatly extend our understanding of strangeness S = {minus}1 hypernuclear systems. For S = {minus}2 systems, new events have been seen in a (K{sup {minus}},K{sup +}) hybrid counter-emulsion experiment at KEK in Japan. We give a theoretical interpretation of one of these events, as well as some further possibilities for the exploration of {Lambda}{Lambda} hypernuclear spectroscopy via {Xi}{sup {minus}}-atoms. We mention some possible enhancements of (K{sup {minus}},K{sup +}) or (K{sup {minus}},K{sup 0}) cross sections to discrete states, due to {Xi}N-{Lambda}{Lambda} configuration mixing in a shell model description of S = {minus}2 hypernuclei. Finally, we explore the possibilities for producing multi-strange nuclei or droplets of strange quark matter (``strangelets``) in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 10134414
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-47115; CONF-911208-7; ON: DE92010158
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International symposium on hypernuclear and strange particle physics - 20th international symposium of the Institute for Nuclear Study (INS) of the University of Tokyo,Shimoda (Japan),9-12 Dec 1991; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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