ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
When antimatter meets strangeness: a new era for precision hypernuclear physics
Observable hadronic matter is mostly composed of u, d quarks. The strangeness degree of freedom is expected to play an important role in dense nuclear matter in the form of hyperons, baryons with at least one valence strange quark. Hyperons can form bound nuclear systems with nucleons and create short-lived hypernuclei which decay on the time-scale of the weak interaction (typically ∼200 ps). Our knowledge of nuclear matter is so far restricted to precision nucleon scattering and nuclear data while a generalisation to other quark flavours lacks precision data. HYPER pioneers a new production mechanism of hypernuclei from antimatter. HYPER will explore the terra incognita of the strange…
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