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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 181, 2018
International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related Topics - EXA2017
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Article Number | 01004 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818101004 | |
Published online | 25 June 2018 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818101004
The kaonic atoms research program at DAΦNE: from SIDDHARTA to SIDDHARTA-2
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INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma), Italy
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Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria and INFN Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
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Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, Vienna, Austria
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Physics Department, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Magurele, Romania
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Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
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University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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The M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, Roma, Italy
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Lund Univeristy, Lund, Sweden
* e-mail: alessandro.scordo@lnf.infn.it
Published online: 25 June 2018
The interaction of antikaons with nucleons and nuclei in the low-energy regime represents an active research field in hadron physics with still many important open questions. The investigation of light kaonic atoms, in which one electron is replaced by a negatively charged kaon, is a unique tool to provide precise information on this interaction; the energy shift and the broadening of the low-lying states of such atoms, induced by the kaon-nucleus hadronic interaction, can be determined with high precision from the atomic X-ray spectroscopy, and this experimental method provides unique information to understand the low energy kaon-nucleus interaction at the production threshold. The lightest atomic systems, like the kaonic hydrogen and the kaonic deuterium deliver, in a model-independent way, the isospin-dependent kaon-nucleon scattering lengths. The most precise kaonic hydrogen measurement to-date, together with an exploratory measurement of kaonic deuterium, were carried out in 2009 by the SIDDHARTA collaboration at the DAΦNE electron-positron collider of LNF-INFN, combining the excellent quality kaon beam delivered by the collider with new experimental techniques, as fast and very precise X-ray detectors, like the Silicon Drift Detectors. The SIDDHARTA results triggered new theoretical work, which achieved major progress in the understanding of the low-energy strong interaction with strangeness reflected by the antikaon-nucleon scattering lengths calculated with the antikaon-proton amplitudes constrained by the SIDDHARTA data. The most important open question is the experimental determination of the hadronic energy shift and width of kaonic deuterium; presently, a major upgrade of the setup, SIDDHARTA-2, is being realized to reach this goal. In this paper, the results obtained in 2009 and the proposed SIDDHARTA-2 upgrades are presented.
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