Contact person - Hank Crawford
(510)-486-6962
 crawford@lbl.gov

There are a number of active experiments at the AGS searching for the H dibaryon, a strangeness -2 particle consisting of 6 quarks (uuddss). While such a particle is predicted to be stable with respect to strong decays in many theoretical approaches, it has not yet been unambiguously seen. If any of the existing or new experiments should succeed in finding this particle, we imagine there would follow an active program to measure its decay modes and other properties to certify its 6-quark nature. Such a program would necessarily require beam after 1997 and could easily stretch beyond the year 2000 depending on the richness of the field and the complexity of final states. Most are expected to contain neutrals making their precise characterization more challenging and requiring clear upgrades to existing detectors. If you are interested in this topic, please contact Hank Crawford at crawford@lbl.gov.