Phys. Rev. C
68,
065201
(2003)
[5 pages]
Neutron energy spectra from the nonmesonic weak decay of Λ12C and Λ89Y hypernuclei
J. H. Kim et al.
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J. H. Kim*, H. Bhang, M. J. Kim, Y. D. Kim†, and H. Park‡
Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
S. Ajimura, T. Kishimoto, S. Minami, T. Mori, A. Sakaguchi, Y. Shimizu, and M. Sumihama
Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
T. Endo, O. Hashimoto, T. Miyoshi§, J. Nishida, T. Saito, Y. Sato**, S. Satoh, T. Takahashi, and H. Tamura
Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
T. Fukuda††, T. Nagae, H. Noumi, H. Outa‡‡, and M. Sekimoto
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
H. Hotchia and K. Tanida‡‡
Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
R. Sawafta
Department of Physics, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina 27411, USA
L. I. Tang
Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia 23668, USA
Received 1 April 2002; revised 23 May 2003; published 16 December 2003
We have measured the neutron spectra emitted in the weak decay of Λ12C and Λ89Y over the energy region above 10 MeV in the (π+,K+) reaction with better statistics and an improved signal-to-background ratio. The neutron yields in the nonmesonic weak decays were obtained from the spectra. By using the proton yield of Λ12C, the Γn∕Γp ratio was estimated to be 0.51±0.15 (stat) from the neutron-to-proton yield ratio for the first time, which suggests the Γn∕Γp ratio is significantly less than unity.
© 2003 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.68.065201
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.68.065201
PACS:
21.80.+a, 13.30.Eg, 13.75.Ev
*Present address: Department of Physics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Korea. †Present address: Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul 143-747, Korea. ‡Present address: KRISS, Daejeon 305-600, Korea. §Present address: Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5506. **Present address: High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan. ††Present address: Laboratory of Physics, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Neyagawa, Osaka 572-8530, Japan. ‡‡Present address: RIKEN, Wako 351-0198, Japan. aPresent address: Center for Proton Accelerator Facilities, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Tokai 319-1195, Japan.
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