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HK: Fachverband Hadronen und Kerne

HK 80: Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy I

HK 80.1: Talk

Friday, March 20, 2009, 11:00–11:15, H-ZO 20

Simulations of Antihyperon-hyperon Physics for PANDA — •Erik Thome — Uppsala University

At high energies the strong force is well described using quarks and gluons as degrees of freedom, while at lower energies hadronic degrees of freedom are more adequate. The PANDA energy regime is in the transition region between these two descriptions. pp → YȲ is a good reaction to test models based on these two alternative viewpoints. The weak decay of the hyperons gives direct access to spin degrees of freedom in their production process, which in turn, can be related to the role of spin in the creation of strangeness.

We present results of simulations that show that PANDA is very suitable for doing this kind of studies. If data exist for these reactions, at all, PANDA will exceed the previous measurements by orders of magnitude in statistics. Many hyperons channels for which there are no experimental data will be accessible.