Formation of Deeply Bound Pionic Atoms and Pion Properties in Nuclei

N. Ikenoa,b, J. Yamagata-Sekiharac, H. Nagahirod,c and S. Hirenzakid,e aDepartment of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan bYITP, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan cRCNP, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan dDepartment of Physics, Nara Women's University, Nara 630-8506, Japan eJ-PARC Branch, KEK Theory Center, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan

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We study theoretically the formation of deeply bound pionic atoms to deduce the pion properties in nuclei precisely from the observables. We show the theoretical formation spectra of deeply bound pionic atoms in the various cases. We consider the pionic atom formation on the even-even and neutron-odd nucleus targets. We also show the angular dependence of the formation spectra in the (d, 3He) reactions. Based on these theoretical results, we have found that we can obtain the systematic information on several deeply bound states for various nuclei. Actually, these observations have been performed in the experiments at RIBF/RIKEN.

DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.127.1568 PACS numbers: 21.85.+d, 21.65.-f, 21.65.Jk