First observation of a nuclear
-state of a
hypernucleus, 
原子核
の
状態の初観測
吉本 雅浩*; 藤田 真奈美; 橋本 直
; 早川 修平; 市川 裕大
; 市川 真也; 今井 憲一*; 七村 拓野; 成木 恵; 佐甲 博之
; 佐藤 進
; 田村 裕和; 谷田 聖
; 山本 剛史
; 他35名*
Yoshimoto, Masahiro*; Fujita, Manami; Hashimoto, Tadashi; Hayakawa, Shuhei; Ichikawa, Yudai; Ichikawa, Masaya; Imai, Kenichi*; Nanamura, Takuya; Naruki, Megumi; Sako, Hiroyuki; Sato, Susumu; Tamura, Hirokazu; Tanida, Kiyoshi; Yamamoto, Takeshi; 35 of others*
Bound-systems of
-
are studied via
capture at rest followed by emission of a twin single-
hypernucleus in the emulsion detectors. Two events forming extremely deep
bound states were obtained by analysis of a hybrid method in the E07 experiment at J-PARC and reanalysis of the E373 experiment at KEK-PS. The decay mode of one event was assigned as
+
+
+
. Since there are no excited states for daughter particles, the binding energy of the
hyperon,
, in
nucleus was uniquely determined to be 6.27
0.27 MeV. Another
-
system via the decay
+
+
brings a
value, 8.00
0.77 MeV or 4.96
0.77 MeV, where the two possible values of
correspond to the ground and the excited states of the daughter
nucleus, respectively. Because the
values are larger than those of the previously reported events (KISO and IBUKI), which are both interpreted as the nuclear
state of the
-
system, these new events give the first indication of the nuclear
state of the
hypernucleus,
.