RUI: Participation in the Study of Strange Nuclear Systems

布鲁克海文国家实验室（BNL） AGS设施和瓦萨学院将开展一项与超核物理有关的研究计划，具体来说，旨在寻找罕见的奇异-2双重子和sigma超核的实验，其中sigma重子被束缚在原子核中。寻找双重子的动机是对夸克袋模型的预测。sigma超核搜索提供了关于sigma重子和正常核物质之间作用力的新信息的可能性，以及最终将奇异夸克引入核子如何改变强作用力。本科生将被纳入本研究项目。该研究将与包括BNL工作人员在内的更大团队合作进行。

A research program will be carried out at the Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) AGS facility and at Vassar College related to hypernuclear physics, specifically, experiments aimed at a search for rare, strangeness -2 dibaryons and for sigma hypernuclei in which sigma baryons are bound in nuclei. The dibaryon search is motivated by serious quark bag model predictions. The sigma hypernuclear search offers the possibility of new information regarding the force between sigma baryons and normal nuclear matter, and ultimately how the introduction of strange quarks into the nucleon modifies the strong force. Undergraduate students will be integrated into this research program. The research will be carried out in collaboration with a larger group including staff at BNL.