We have measured the proton energy distribution from the 4He(stopped K−,p) reaction by means of time-of-flight. A mono-energetic peak was observed, which is interpreted as the formation of a new kind of neutral tribaryon S0(3115) with isospin T=1 and strangeness S=−1. The mass and width of the state were deduced to be 3117.0−4.4+1.5MeV/c2 and <21MeV/c2, respectively. The state mainly decays into ΣNN
Thermal muonium (positive muon and electron ) atoms were produced from the surface of a hot (2300 K) and high purity tungsten foil placed at the primary beam of 500 MeV pulsed protons. Resonant ionization of the thermal muonium with pulsed laser sources was achieved with reference to thermal hydrogen isotopes (D and T) so as to produce a potentially intense ultraslow (as low as 0.2 eV) positive muon beam with an extremely narrow phase-space volume and high stopping density.
1 February 2009 in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment