https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00386-y
Regular Article – Experimental Physics
The potential of 
and 
studies with PANDA at FAIR
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Università Politecnica delle Marche-Ancona, Ancona, Italy
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Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Institut für Experimentalphysik I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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Department of Physics, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey
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Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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Institutul National de C&D pentru Fizica si Inginerie Nucleara “Horia Hulubei”, Bukarest-Magurele, Romania
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Institute of Applied Informatics, University of Technology, Cracow, Poland
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IFJ, Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow, Poland
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AGH, University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
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Instytut Fizyki, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Cracow, Poland
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FAIR, Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe, Darmstadt, Germany
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GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
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Università di Ferrara and INFN Sezione di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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Goethe-Universität, Institut für Kernphysik, Frankfurt, Germany
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Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt, Germany
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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Department of Physics, University of Genova and INFN-Genova, Genova, Italy
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Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen II. Physikalisches Institut, Gießen, Germany
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IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Pilani, Goa, India
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KVI-Center for Advanced Radiation Technology (CART), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Physics Department, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India
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University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Department of Physics, Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Lanzhou, China
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro, Italy
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Department of Physics, Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden
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Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
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Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Research Institute for Nuclear Problems, Belarus State University, Minsk, Belarus
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Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russia
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Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics named by A.I. Alikhanov of National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia
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Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
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Nankai University, Nankai, China
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Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91406, Orsay cedex, France
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University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, USA
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, INFN Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
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A.A. Logunov Institute for High Energy Physics of the National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, Protvino, Russia
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Sikaha-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, WB, Santiniketan, India
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School of Physics, University of Sidney, Sidney, Australia
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National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute” B. P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm, Sweden
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Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Applied Physics Department, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India
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Department of Physics, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, India
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Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
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INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy
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Università di Torino and INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy
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Politecnico di Torino and INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy
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Università di Trieste and INFN Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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Institutionen för fysik och astronomi, Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden
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Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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Physics Department, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidynagar, India
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National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
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Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Austria
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National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow, Russia
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karin.schonning@physics.uu.se
Received:
30
September
2020
Accepted:
4
February
2021
Published online:
30
April
2021
The antiproton experiment PANDA at FAIR is designed to bring hadron physics to a new level in terms of scope, precision and accuracy. In this work, its unique capability for studies of hyperons is outlined. We discuss ground-state hyperons as diagnostic tools to study non-perturbative aspects of the strong interaction, and fundamental symmetries. New simulation studies have been carried out for two benchmark hyperon-antihyperon production channels: 
and 
. The results, presented in detail in this paper, show that hyperon-antihyperon pairs from these reactions can be exclusively reconstructed with high efficiency and very low background contamination. In addition, the polarisation and spin correlations have been studied, exploiting the weak, self-analysing decay of hyperons and antihyperons. Two independent approaches to the finite efficiency have been applied and evaluated: one standard multidimensional efficiency correction approach, and one efficiency independent approach. The applicability of the latter was thoroughly evaluated for all channels, beam momenta and observables. The standard method yields good results in all cases, and shows that spin observables can be studied with high precision and accuracy already in the first phase of data taking with PANDA.
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