Precision spectroscopy of pionic atoms and chiral symmetry in nuclei

Kenta Itahashi, Deuksoon Ahn, Georg P.A. Berg, Masanori Dozono, Daijiro Etoh, Hiroyuki Fujioka, Naoki Fukuda, Nobuhisa Fukunishi, Hans Geissel, Emma Haettner, Tadashi Hashimoto, Ryugo S. Hayano, Satoru Hirenzaki, Hiroshi Horii, Natsumi Ikeno, Naoto Inabe, Masahiko Iwasaki, Daisuke Kameda, Shouichiro Kawase, Keiichi KisamoriYu Kiyokawa, Toshiyuki Kubo, Kensuke Kusaka, Masafumi Matsushita, Shin'Ichiro Michimasa, Go Mishima, Hiroyuki Miya, Daichi Murai, Hideko Nagahiro, Takahiro Nishi, Shinsuke Ota, Naruhiko Sakamoto, Kimiko Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Suzuki, Ken Suzuki, Motonobu Takaki, Hiroyuki Takeda, Yoshiki K. Tanaka, Tomohiro Uesaka, Yasumori Wada, Yuni N. Watanabe, Helmut Weick, Hiroki Yamakami, Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Koichi Yoshida

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Abstract

We conduct an experimental project to make spectroscopy of deeply bound pionic atoms systematically over wide range of nuclei. We aim at studying the strong interaction in the low energy region, which has close connection to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and its partial restoration in nuclear matter. First experimental results show improved spectral resolution and much better statistical sensitivity than previous experiments. Present status of the experiment is reported.

Original languageEnglish
Article number01017
JournalEPJ Web of Conferences
Volume130
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016 Nov 29
Event14th InternationalWorkshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction, MESON 2016 - Cracow, Poland
Duration: 2016 Jun 22016 Jun 7

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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