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Correlations of back-to-back coincident $Lambda d$ and $Lambda t$ pairs from the stopped $K^-$ reaction on $^4$He had been investigated, thereby $Lambda d$ and $Lambda t$ branches of non-mesonic three- and four-nucleon absorption processes of antikaon at rest were identified as well-separable processes, respectively. The branching ratio of the three-nucleon process, ($^4$He-$K^-$)$_{atomic} rightarrow Lambda d n$, is estimated to be $(0.9 pm 0.1 (stat) pm 0.2 (syst)) times 10^{-3}$ from the normalized $Lambda d$ spectrum in a $Lambda d n$ final state, while the fraction of the four-nucleon process, ($^4$He-$K^-$)$_{atomic} rightarrow Lambda t$, is obtained to be $(3.1 pm 0.4 (stat) pm 0.5 (syst)) times 10^{-4}$ per stopped $K^-$.
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We have observed an intense high-energy component in an inclusive $^4$He(stopped $K^-$, $d$) spectrum. For back-to-back $Lambda d$ pairs a prominent event cluster has been found just below the $m_{^4textrm{He}}+m_{K^-}-m_{n}$ mass threshold in the $Lambda d$ invariant mass spectrum of $Lambda dn$ events, which is evidence for a three-nucleon absorption process of $K^-$ in $^4$He. In addition, an appreciable strength is revealed below $sim$3220 MeV/$c^2$. Well separated $Sigma^0 dn$ events show a peak similar to the case of $Lambda dn$.
We have investigated correlations of coincident $Lambda N$ pairs from the stopped $K^-$ reaction on ${}^4$He, and clearly observed $Lambda p$ and $Lambda n$ branches of the two-nucleon absorption process in the $Lambda N$ invariant mass spectra. In addition, non-mesonic reaction channels, which indicate possible exotic signals for the formation of strange multibaryon states, have been identified.
Measurements of the t-t and p-t coincidence events in the $^3$H ($alpha$, ttp) reaction have been obtained at $E_alpha$ incident energy of 67.2 MeV. Various appropriate angular configurations of detectors were chosen in order to observe the population of the $^6$He$^*$ state at around 18 MeV. Its contribution appears at the $E_{rm tt}$ relative energy of 6.0 MeV by the analysis of bidimensional spectra. We found the formation of the $^6$He excited state at $E^* = 18.3 pm 0.2$ MeV (with a $Gamma$ width of 1.1 $pm$ 0.3 MeV) by the decay into the t+t binary channel, since the threshold energy of the t+t channel is 12.31 MeV. In each analyzed bidimensional energy spectrum of ($E_{rm t}$, $E_{rm t}$) and ($E_{rm p}$, $E_{rm t}$) coincidence events resonance structures are present due to the formation of both $^6$He$^*$ and $^4$He$^*$ excited states. Our results on the $E^*$ and $Gamma$ values regarding the $^6$He$^*$ level of about 18 MeV are compared with the results obtained by other reactions. Moreover, we also found new $Gamma$ width values of 0.7 $pm$ 0.3 and 0.8 $pm$ 0.4 MeV for the 14.0 $pm$ 0.4 and 16.1 $pm$ 0.4 MeV $^6$He levels, respectively.
Two new low-lying $^6$He levels at excitation energies of about 2.4 and 2.9 MeV were observed in the experimental investigation of the p-$alpha$ coincidence spectra obtained by the $^3$H($^4$He,p$alpha$)2n four-body reaction at $E_{rm ,^4He}$ beam energy of 27.2 MeV. The relevant $E^*$ peak energy and $Gamma$ energy width spectroscopic parameters for such $^6$He$^*$ excited states decaying into the $alpha$+n+n channel were obtained by analyzing the bidimensional ($E_{rm p}$, $E_{rm alpha}$) energy spectra. The present new result of two low-lying $^6$He$^*$ excited states above the $^4$He+2n threshold energy of 0.974 MeV is important for the investigation of the nuclear structure of neutron rich light nuclei and also as a basic test for theoretical models in the study of the three-cluster resonance feature of $^6$He.
Novel data from the $K^{-}_{stop}A$ absorption reaction in light nuclei $^{6,7}$Li and $^{9}$Be are presented. The study aimed at finding $Lambda t$ correlations. Regardless of $A$, the $Lambda t$ pairs are preferentially emitted in opposite directions. Reaction modeling predominantly assigns to the $K^-_{stop}AtoLambda t(N)A$ direct reactions the emission of the $Lambda t$ pairs whose yield is found to range from $10^{-3}$ to $10^{-4}$$/K^-_{stop}$. The experiment was performed with the FINUDA spectrometer at DA$Phi$NE (LNF).
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