Kaonic atoms and in-medium K-N amplitudes II: interplay between theory and phenomenology

Abstract

A microscopic kaonic-atom optical potential $V_{K^{-}}^{(1)}$ is constructed, using the Ikeda-Hyodo-Weise NLO chiral $K^{-}N$ subthreshold scattering amplitudes constrained by the kaonic hydrogen SIDDHARTA measurement, and incorporating Pauli correlations within the Waas-Rho-Weise generalization of the Ericson-Ericson multiple-scattering approach. Good fits to kaonic atom data over the entire periodic table require additionally sizable $K^{-}NN$--motivated absorptive and dispersive phenomenological terms, in agreement with our former analysis based on a post-SIDDHARTA in-medium chirally-inspired NLO separable model by Cieplý and Smejkal. Such terms are included by introducing a phenomenological potential $V_{K^{-}}^{(2)}$ and coupling it self consistently to $V_{K^{-}}^{(1)}$. Properties of resulting kaonic atom potentials are discussed with special attention paid to the role of $K^{-}$-nuclear absorption and to the extraction of density-dependent amplitudes representing $K^{-}$ multi-nucleon processes.

22 pages, 2 tables, 9 figures; v2--minor notational changes, particularly in Figs.7 and 8 and related text, and corrected typos in Table 2; v3--matching published version

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• In-medium nuclear interactions of low-energy hadrons
• Chiral SU(3) Dynamics and Antikaon-Nuclear quasibound States
• Radial sensitivity of kaonic atoms and strongly bound $\bar{K}$ states

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