Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2000-01-31
Nucl.Phys.A673:335-353,2000
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
22 pages, Latex, 6 postscript figures. References and figures added. In print in Nuclear Physics A
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0375-9474(00)00152-4
Using a microscopic antikaon-nucleus optical potential recently developed by Ramos and Oset (nucl-th/9906016, in print in Nuclear Physics A) from a chiral model, we calculate strong interaction shifts and widths for $K^-$ atoms. This purely theoretical potential gives an acceptable description of the measured data ($\chi^2/{\rm num.data}= 3.8$), though it turns out to be less attractive than what can be inferred from the existing kaon atomic data. We also use a modified potential, obtained by adding to the latter theoretical one a s-wave term which is fitted to known experimental kaonic data ($\chi^2/{\rm degree of freedom}= 1.6$), to predict deeply bound $K^-$ atomic levels, not detected yet. This improved potential predicts, in general, states even narrower than those recently reported by Friedman and Gal. (Phys.Let.B459, 1999, 43). This reinforces the idea that these deeply atomic states can be detected and resolved by using suitable nuclear reactions. Besides, we also study $K^-$ and $\bar K^0$ nuclear bound states and compute binding energies and widths, for both species of antikaons, in $^{12}$C, $^{40}$Ca and $^{208}$Pb. Despite of restricting our study only to potentials obtained from best fits to the known kaonic atom data, the dynamics of these nuclear bound states depend dramatically on the particular optical potential used.
Baca Arnold
Garcia-Recio Carmen
Nieves Juan
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