Self-consistent many-body approach to the electroproduction of hypernuclei

Abstract

The electroproduction of selected $p$- and $sd$-shell hypernuclei was studied within a many-body approach using realistic interactions between the constituent baryons. The cross sections were computed in distorted-wave impulse approximation using two elementary amplitudes for the electroproduction of the $\hat{I}›$ hyperon. The structure of the hypernuclei was investigated within the framework of the self-consistent $\hat{I}›$-nucleon Tamm-Dancoff approach and its extension known as the $\hat{I}›$-nucleon equation of motion phonon method. Use was made of the NNLOsat chiral potential plus the effective Nijmegen-F YN interaction. The method was first implemented on light nuclei for studying the available experimental data and establishing a relation to other approaches. After this proof test, it was adopted for predicting the electroproduction cross section of the hypernuclei ${}_{\hat{I}›}^{40}$K and ${}_{\hat{I}›}^{48}$K in view of the E12-15-008 experiment in preparation at JLab. On the ground of these predictions, appreciable effects on the spectra are expected to be induced by the YN interaction.

10 pages, 7 figures (version 2); 11 pages, 9 figures (v1)