Electroproduction of Strange Nuclei

Conference · Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2002

OSTI ID:903211

Hungerford, E V

The advent of high-energy, CW-beams of electrons now allows electro-production and precision studies of nuclei containing hyperons. Previously, the injection of strangeness into a nucleus was accomplished using secondary beams of mesons, where beam quality and target thickness limited the missing mass resolution. We review here the theoretical description of the (e, e'K+) reaction mechanism, and discuss the first experiment demonstrating that this reaction can be used to precisely study the spectra of light hypernuclei. Future experiments based on similar techniques, are expected to attain even better resolutions and rates.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84ER40150
• OSTI ID: 903211
• Report Number(s): JLAB-PHY-01-56; DOE/ER/40150-4275; TRN: US0703589
• Resource Relation: Conference: International Symposium On Electromagnetic Interactions In Nuclear And Hadron Physics (EMI 2001), 4-7 Dec 2001, Osaka, Ibaraki, Japan
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ACCURACY
ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS
ELECTRONS
ELECTROPRODUCTION
HYPERNUCLEI
HYPERONS
MESONS
MISSING MASS
NUCLEI
PHYSICS
RESOLUTION
SECONDARY BEAMS
SPECTRA
STRANGENESS