| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 81, 2014
MESON 2014 – 13th International Workshop on Production, Properties and Interaction of Mesons
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| Article Number | 01017 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Plenary talks | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20148101017 | |
| Published online | 26 November 2014 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20148101017
Kaonic atoms – studies of the strong interaction with strangeness
1 Stefan-Meyer-Institut für subatomare Physik, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Wien, Austria
2 INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, C.P. 13, Via E. Fermi 40, I-00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy
3 Dep. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, P.O.Box 3055, Victoria B.C. Canada V8W3P6
4 Politecnico di Milano, Dip. di Elettronica e Informazione, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
5 Institutul National pentru Fizica si Inginerie Nucleara Horia Hulubei, Reactorului 30, Magurele, Romania
6 INFN Sez. di Roma I and Instituto Superiore di Sanita I-00161, Roma, Italy
7 University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
8 RIKEN, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 Japan
9 Excellence Cluster Universe, Tech. Univ. München, Boltzmannstraße 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany
10 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Casas Reais 8, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
a e-mail: johann.marton@oeaw.ac.at
Published online: 26 November 2014
The strong interaction of charged antikaons (K−) with nucleons and nuclei in the low-energy regime is a fascinating topic. The antikaon plays a peculiar role in hadron physics due to the strong attraction antikaon-nucleon which is a key question for possible kaonic nuclear bound states. A rather direct experimental access to the antikaon-nucleon scattering lengths is provided by precision X-ray spectroscopy of transitions to low-lying states in light kaonic atoms like kaonic hydrogen and deuterium. After the successful completion of precision measurements on kaonic hydrogen and helium isotopes by SIDDHARTA at DAΦNE/LNF, new X-ray studies with the focus on kaonic deuterium are in preparation (SIDDHARTA2). In the future with kaonic deuterium data the antikaon-nucleon isospin-dependent scattering lengths can be extracted for the first time. An overview of the experimental results of SIDDHARTA and an outlook to future perspectives in the SIDDHARTA2 experiments in this frontier research field will be given.
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