Unveiling the strangeness secrets: low-energy kaon-nucleon/nuclei interactions studies at DA$Phi$NE
Keywords
K nucleus: interaction | energy: low | strangeness | electron positron: annihilation | Lambda(1405) | K-: secondary beam | Phi(1020): hadronic decay | K-: mesic atom | bound state | Frascati Stor
Abstract
The DA_s13_s17934_s19NE electron-positron collider at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN, Italy has made available a unique quality low-energy negatively charged kaons “beam”, which is used to unveil the secrets of the kaon-nucleon/nuclei interactions at low energies by the SIDDHARTA-2 and AMADEUS experiments. SIDDHARTA has already performed unprecedented precision measurements of kaonic atoms, and is being presently upgraded, as SIDDHARTA-2, to approach new frontiers. The AMADEUS experiment plans to perform in the coming years precision measurements on kaon-nuclei interactions at low-energies, to study the possible formation of kaonic nuclei, of the _s13_s17923_s19(1405) and of many other processes involving strangeness.
