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Three-Body nonmesonic weak decay of the CΛ12 hypernucleus

  • M. Kim
  • , S. Ajimura
  • , K. Aoki
  • , A. Banu
  • , H. Bhang
  • , T. Fukuda
  • , O. Hashimoto
  • , J. I. Hwang
  • , S. Kameoka
  • , B. H. Kang
  • , E. Kim
  • , J. H. Kim
  • , T. Maruta
  • , Y. Miura
  • , Y. Miyake
  • , T. Nagae
  • , M. Nakamura
  • , S. N. Nakamura
  • , H. Noumi
  • , S. Okada
  • Y. Okayasu, H. Outa, H. Park, P. K. Saha, Y. Sato, M. Sekimoto, T. Takahashi, H. Tamura, K. Tanida, A. Toyoda, K. Tshoo, K. Tsukada, T. Watanabe, H. J. Yim
  • The University of Osaka
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba
  • GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
  • Seoul National University
  • Osaka Electro-Communication University
  • Tohoku University
  • Ewha Womans University
  • Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Kyoto University
  • Institute of Science Tokyo
  • RIKEN
  • Japan Atomic Energy Agency

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Abstract

We have measured the branching ratio of the three-body process in the nonmesonic weak decay of CΛ12 to be 0.29±0.13. This result was obtained by reproducing the nucleon and the nucleon pair yields introducing a measured final state interaction. At the same time, we have determined the absolute decay widths, Γn and Γp, along with Γ2N, whose relative ratio has been a long-standing puzzle. Including the three-body process, we have successfully reproduced the nucleon energy distribution, the coincidence two-nucleon angular correlation, and the momentum sum distribution simultaneously.

Original languageEnglish
Article number182502
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume103
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Oct 2009

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