SEARCH FOR KAONIC NUCLEI AT DAΦNE2: THE AMADEUS PROJECT

The planned upgrade of DAΦNE at LNF with a peak luminosity in the order of L = 1033 cm -2 s -1 will be the ideal machine to search for and prove the existence of antikaon-mediated deeply bound nuclear cluster. Antikaon-mediated deeply bound nuclear clusters will allow the study of most important problems in hadron physics today, namely, how the hadron masses and hadron interactions change in the nuclear medium and what is the structure of cold dense hadronic matter. AMADEUS will use the KLOE detector with an additional dedicated target and detector system around the interaction zone to perform exclusive measurements – all particles in the formation and decay processes of deeply bound nuclear clusters will be detected. These measurements will prove beyond doubt the anticipated formation production of antikaon-mediated deeply bound nuclear clusters.