Production of the neutron-rich hypernucleus 10LambdaLi in the (pi-,K+) double charge-exchange reaction

P K Saha; T Fukuda; W Imoto; J K Ahn; S Ajimura; K Aoki; H C Bhang; H Fujioka; H Hotchi; J I Hwang; T Itabashi; B H Kang; H D Kim; M J Kim; T Kishimoto; A Krutenkova; T Maruta; Y Miura; K Miwa; T Nagae; H Noumi; H Outa; T Ohtaki; A Sakaguchi; Y Sato; M Sekimoto; Y Shimizu; H Tamura; K Tanida; A Toyoda; M Ukai; H J Yim

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.052502

Production of the neutron-rich hypernucleus 10LambdaLi in the (pi-,K+) double charge-exchange reaction

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Feb 11;94(5):052502. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.052502. Epub 2005 Feb 9.

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Affiliation

¹ Osaka Electro-Communication University, Neyagawa, Osaka 572-8530, Japan.

PMID: 15783631
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.052502

Abstract

In order to produce a neutron-rich Lambda hypernucleus for the first time, we carried out an experiment by utilizing the (pi-,K+) double charge-exchange reaction on a 10B target. We observed the production of a 10LambdaLi hypernucleus. The cross section for the Lambda bound region was found to be 11.3+/-1.9 nb/sr with the 1.2 GeV/c incident momentum, which is compared with the 10LambdaB hypernucleus production cross section, 7.8+/-0.3 microb/sr, in the (pi+,K+) reaction with a 1.05 GeV/c incident momentum beam.