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Project

Electromagnetic kaon production off the deuteron
Code
3F015608
Duration
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Applied mathematics in specific fields
    • Astronomy and space sciences
    • Classical physics
    • Elementary particle and high energy physics
    • Materials physics
    • Mathematical physics
    • Quantum physics
Keywords
Regge models meson production strangeness physics
 
Project description
 

Kaon production reactions play a crucial role in the study of the excitation spectrum of the nucleon. The Regge-plus-resonance model, developed at Ghent University, is a powerful phenomenological model that provides a satisfactory description of the current experimental data, using a limited number of free parameters. Production off deuterium will allow to constrain the elementary reaction even further and in addition provide information about the hyperon-nucleon interaction.