from 29 May 2014 to 3 June 2014
Auditorium Maximum
Europe/Warsaw timezone
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Contribution plenary talk

Auditorium Maximum - Plenary

Investigation of the low-energy kaons hadronic interactions in light nuclei by AMADEUS

Speakers

  • Kristian PISCICCHIA

Primary authors

Abstract content

The AMADEUS experiment deals with the investigation of the low-energy kaon-nuclei hadronic interaction at the DA$\Phi$NE collider at LNF-INFN, which is fundamental to solve longstanding questions in the non-perturbative strangeness QCD sector. AMADEUS step 0 consisted in the analysis of 2004/2005 KLOE data, exploiting $K^-$ absorptions in $H$, ${}^4He$, ${}^{9}Be$ and ${}^{12}C$, leading to the first invariant mass spectroscopy study with in-flight negative kaons. With AMADEUS step 1 a dedicated pure Carbon target was implemented in the central region of the KLOE detector, providing a high statistic sample of pure at-rest $K^-$ nuclear interaction. We will show the results obtained in the analysis of the $\Sigma^+ \pi^-$ and $\Sigma^0 \pi^0$ (pure isospin 0) channels, intended to shed light on the controversial nature of the $\Lambda(1405)$ state. The analysis of the $\Lambda (\Sigma^0) \pi^-$ channel, from which the measurement of the module of the isospin 1, S-wave non resonant transition amplitude ca be extracted for the first time, will be presented. The investigation of single versus multi nucleon absorption in correlated $\Lambda p$ pairs production, and internal conversion processes will be shown, together with preliminary results on correlated $\Lambda d$ and $\Lambda t$ production.