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The cross-section measurement for the 3H(e, e′K+)nnΛ reaction
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article
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Suzuki, KN; Gogami, T; Pandey, B; Itabashi, K; Nagao, S; Okuyama, K; Nakamura, SN; Tang, L; Abrams, D; Akiyama, T; Androic, D; Aniol, K; Gayoso, C Ayerbe; Bane, J; Barcus, S; Barrow, J; Bellini, V; Bhatt, H; Bhetuwal, D; Biswas, D; Camsonne, A; Castellanos, J; Chen, J-P; Chen, J; Covrig, S; Chrisman, D; Cruz-Torres, R; Das, R; Fuchey, E; Gnanvo, K; Garibaldi, F; Gautam, T; Gomez, J; Gueye, P; Hague, TJ; Hansen, O; Henry, W; Hauenstein, F; Higinbotham, DW; Hyde, CE; Kaneta, M; Keppel, C; Kutz, T; Lashley-Colthirst, N; Li, S; Liu, H; Mammei, J; Markowitz, P; McClellan, RE; Meddi, F; Meekins, D; Michaels, R; Mihovilovič, M; Moyer, A; Nguyen, D; Nycz, M; Owen, V; Palatchi, C; Park, S; Petkovic, T; Premathilake, S; Reimer, PE; Reinhold, J; Riordan, S; Rodriguez, V; Samanta, C; Santiesteban, SN; Sawatzky, B; Širca, S; Slifer, K; Su, T; Tian, Y; Toyama, Y; Uehara, K; Urciuoli, GM; Votaw, D; Williamson, J; Wojtsekhowski, B; Wood, SA; Yale, B; Ye, Z; Zhang, J; Zheng, X
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Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics. 2022(1)
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Abstract
The small binding energy of the hypertriton leads to predictions of the non-existence of bound hypernuclei for isotriplet three-body systems such as nnΛ. However, invariant mass spectroscopy at GSI has reported events that may be interpreted as the bound nnΛ state. The nnΛ state was sought by missing-mass spectroscopy via the (e, e′K+) reaction at Jefferson Lab's experimental Hall A. The present experiment has higher sensitivity to the nnΛ-state investigation in terms of better precision by a factor of about three. The analysis shown in this article focuses on the derivation of the reaction cross-section for the 3H(γ∗, K+)X reaction. Events that were detected in an acceptance, where a Monte Carlo simulation could reproduce the data well (δ p/p| < 4), were analyzed to minimize the systematic uncertainty. No significant structures were observed with the acceptance cuts, and the upper limits of the production cross-section of the nnΛ state were obtained to be 21 and 31 nb sr-1 at the $90\%$ confidence level when theoretical predictions of (-BΛ, Γ) = (0.25, 0.8) MeV and (0.55, 4.7) MeV, respectively, were assumed. The cross-section result provides valuable information for examining the existence of nnΛ.