At the Mainz Microtron MAMI hypernuclei can be produced by (e,e K) reactions. A dedicated kaon spectrometer positioned at 0 • with respect to the incident electron beam is used to tag events involving strangeness production. By measuring the momenta of pions from two body weak decays one gains direct access to the ground state masses of the produced hyperfragments. In this contribution the motivation of the experiment and the experimental challenges are presented.
PoS(Confinement X)254High precision mass measurements of hypernuclei -achievements and perspectives J. PochodzallaThe twofold way Direct production spectroscopy Examples strangeness production
missing massDecay spectroscopy γ-decay of excited states π from weak decay charged fragments Examples nuclear emulsions heavy ion reactions antiproton induced reactions continuum excitation in (e,e´K + )Figure 1: Two classes of reactions to produce and study hypernuclei. Missing mass spectroscopy which employs kinematic information of the production process (left) and the decay spectroscopy which relies on the detection of the decay products (right). At MAMI hypernuclei are produced in (e,e K + ) reactions. Pions from the weak decay of deexcited hyperfragments are used to identify the hypernuclei.