In order to produce a neutron-rich Lambda hypernucleus for the first time, we carried out an experiment by utilizing the (pi-,K+) double charge-exchange reaction on a 10B target. We observed the production of a 10LambdaLi hypernucleus. The cross section for the Lambda bound region was found to be 11.3+/-1.9 nb/sr with the 1.2 GeV/c incident momentum, which is compared with the 10LambdaB hypernucleus production cross section, 7.8+/-0.3 microb/sr, in the (pi+,K+) reaction with a 1.05 GeV/c incident momentum beam.

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The present status of hypernuclear γ-ray spectroscopy with Hyperball is summarized. We observed two γ transitions of 16 Λ O(1 − → 1 − , 0 − ) and obtained the strength of the ΛN tensor force. In 10 B(K − , π − γ) data, we did not observe the spin-flip M1 transition of 10 Λ B(2 − → 1 − ), but γ rays from hyperfragments such as 7 Λ Li(7/2 + → 5/2 + ) and 9 Λ Be(3/2 + → 1/2 + ) were observed. In 11 B(π + , K + γ) data, we observed six γ transitions of 11 Λ B. We also attempted an inclusive γ-ray measurement with stopped K − beam. † Present address:

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Effective temperature (Teff) dependences of reduced mobilities and collision cross section of small carbon cluster cations, Cn+ (n = 6–25), were investigated by using a drift cell with temperatures of 170–300 K coupled with a reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometer. We have measured ion mobility within E/N = 16–28 Td, values of which are slightly higher than the general experimental value at low-field conditions. Thus, our conditions should correspond to medium field strength between low- and high-field conditions. Under the present conditions, collision cross section was found to be proportional to Teff−0.1 − Teff−0.2. The power in the temperature dependence was slightly closer to zero than results obtained previously (A. A. Shvartsburg, G. C. Schatz, M. F. Jarrold, J. Chem. Phys., 1998, 108, 2416). This difference is probably due to E/N, resulting in the difference of relative kinetic energy between Cn+ and buffer gas atoms, in spite of the same Teff region. The result showed that the hard-sphere model is more applicable in the present conditions.