2-7 June 2016
Auditorium Maximum
Europe/Warsaw timezone
14th International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction
Contribution parallel talk
Auditorium Maximum
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Medium lecture hall (B)
Charge symmetry breaking in light hypernuclei
Collaboration
A1
Abstract content
At the Mainz Microtron MAMI the high-resolution spectroscopy of decay-pions in strangeness electro-production is used to extract the $\Lambda$ hyperon ground state binding energy in $^4_\Lambda$H. This binding energy is used together with the $^4_\Lambda$He ground state binding energy from nuclear emulsion experiments and with energy levels of the $1^+$ excited state for both hypernuclei from $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy to address the charge symmetry in the strong interaction. The full understanding of the large and spin-dependent breaking of this symmetry in the $A = 4$ hypernuclei still remains one of the open issues of hypernuclear physics.