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Recent Achievements in Hypernuclear Physics

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In the last decade the hypernuclear physics community was committed to carrying on several third-generation experiments. Large data samples were collected on specific items, thanks to dedicated facilities and experimental apparatuses. The attention was focused on both high-resolution spectroscopy and decay mode study of single Λ-hypernuclei. Nowadays this phase is over but, until recently, important and to some extent unexpected results were achieved. Among others, the claim for the first observation of the neutron-rich hypernucleus \({^6_\Lambda{\rm H}}\) and the first experimental evidence for the hypernucleus two-nucleon induced weak decay raised strong interest.

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Feliciello, A. Recent Achievements in Hypernuclear Physics. Few-Body Syst 55, 605–613 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-013-0759-1

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