Production of double hypernuclei with high energy antiprotons at PANDA

TL;DR

This paper proposes a new method to produce and measure double hypernuclei using high-energy antiprotons at PANDA, including preliminary rate calculations for the upcoming HESR beam.

Contribution

It introduces a novel technique for double hypernuclei production with antiprotons and provides initial estimates of production and detection rates.

Findings

Preliminary calculations suggest feasible production rates.

The proposed method enables in-flight production and measurement.

Initial results support the potential of PANDA for hypernuclei research.

Abstract

The data available in literature, concerning the binding energy of double hypernuclei and their production techniques are briefly reviewed. Then, a new technique for producing double hypernuclei with antiprotons in flight and measuring their binding energy, proposed for the PANDA experiment at GSI, is investigated. Furthermore, preliminary results of the calculations for evaluating the double hypernuclei production and detection rates at the antiproton beam intensity foreseen at HESR are reported.