Kaon-nucleon scattering lengths from kaonic deuterium experiments

Mar, 2006
9 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 47 (2006) 473-480
e-Print:
Report number:
  • HISKP-TH-06-01,
  • FZJ-IKP-TH-2006-05

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Abstract:
The extraction of the S-wave kaon-nucleon scattering lengths a0 and a1 from a combined analysis of existing kaonic hydrogen and synthetic deuterium data has been carried out within the framework of a low-energy effective field theory. It turns out that with the present DEAR central values for the kaonic hydrogen ground-state energy and width, a solution for a0 and a1 exists only in a restricted domain of input values for the kaon-deuteron scattering length. Consequently, measuring this scattering length imposes stringent constraints on the theoretical description of the kaon-deuteron interactions at low energies.
  • 12.39.Fe
  • 13.75.Jz
  • 13.75.Cs
  • 36.10.Gv
  • hydrogen: mesic atom
  • deuteron: mesic atom
  • K-: mesic atom
  • K nucleon: scattering length
  • K- deuteron: scattering length
  • ground state: energy