A novel experiment, aiming at demonstrating the feasibility of hypernuclear spectroscopy with heavy-ion beams, was conducted. Using the invariant mass method, the spectroscopy of hypernuclear products of 6 Li projectiles on a carbon target at 2 A GeV was performed. Signals of the Λ-hyperon and 3 Λ H and 4 Λ H hypernuclei were observed for final states of p+π − , 3 He+π − and 4 He+π − , respectively, with significance values of 6.7, 4.7 and 4.9σ. By analyzing the proper decay time from secondary vertex distribution with the unbinned maximum likelihood fitting method, their lifetime values were deduced to be 262 +56 −43 ± 45 ps for Λ, 183 +42 −32 ± 37 ps for 3 Λ H, and 140 +48 −33 ± 35 ps for 4 Λ H.
The energy spacing between the ground-state spin doublet of 4 Λ He(1 + ,0 + ) was determined to be 1406 ± 2 ± 2 keV, by measuring γ rays for the 1 + → 0 + transition with a high efficiency germanium detector array in coincidence with the 4 He(K − , π − ) 4Λ He reaction at J-PARC. In comparison to the corresponding energy spacing in the mirror hypernucleus 4 Λ H, the present result clearly indicates the existence of charge symmetry breaking (CSB) in ΛN interaction. It is also found that the CSB effect is large in the 0 + ground state but is by one order of magnitude smaller in the 1 + excited state, demonstrating that the ΛN CSB interaction has spin dependence.
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