Phys. Rev. C 61, 054603 (2000) [7 pages]Evidence of Ξ hypernuclear production in the 12C(K-,K+)Ξ12Be reactionReceived 30 July 1999; published 30 March 2000 The E885 Collaboration utilized the 1.8 GeV/cK- beam line at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) to accumulate greater than 10 times the world’s existing data sample of (K-,K+) events on carbon. A total of about 3×105 (K-,K+) events were collected and analyzed. Ξ hypernuclear states are expected to be produced through the reaction K-+12C⃗K++Ξ12Be. A signal could also result from direct production of Λ11Be+Λ without a distinct Ξ intermediate state. The measured missing-mass spectrum indicates the existence of a signal below the threshold for free Ξ- production that cannot be explained by background or effects of limited resolution. Although the resolution was not sufficient to resolve discrete hypernuclear states, the excess of events in the region of missing mass, kinematically inaccessible in free Ξ- production, can be compared with theoretical predictions for Ξ12Be production. Reasonable agreement between the data and theory is achieved by assuming a Ξ-nucleus potential well depth V0Ξ of about 14 MeV within the Woods-Saxon prescription. © 2000 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.61.054603
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.61.054603
PACS:
21.80.+a, 21.30.Fe, 25.80.Nv, 27.10.+h
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