Study of the Λ(1116) interaction in cold nuclear matter

Publisher: Edp Sciences

E-ISSN: 2100-014x|66|issue|09002-09002

ISSN: 2100-014x

Source: EPJ Web of Conference, Vol.66, Iss.issue, 2014-03, pp. : 09002-09002

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Abstract

The interaction of Λ hyperons with baryonic nuclear matter at saturation density is expected to be attractive. The interaction strength was extracted from hypernuclei data. A different approach to obtain the potential depth of the Λ mean-field potential is to compare experimental data with transport simulations. We analyze experimental data of Λ hyperons measured with the HADES detector in p+93Nb reactions with a kinetic beam energy of 3.5 GeV carried by the proton. The high statistic of measured Λ hyperons allows us to perform a double differential analysis in Lorentz-invariant observables of transverse momentum and rapidity. We present the analysis method and a comparison with simulations.