Formation of hypernuclei in evaporation and fission processes

Abstract

There are excellent opportunities to produce excited heavy hyperresidues in relativistic hadron and peripheral heavy-ion collisions. We investigate the disintegration of such residues into hypernuclei via evaporation of baryons and light clusters and their fission. Previously these processes were well known for normal nuclei as the decay channels at low excitation energies. We have generalized these models for the case of hypermatter. In this way we make extension of nuclear reaction studies at low temperature into the strange sector. We demonstrate how the new decay channels can be integrated in the whole disintegration process. Their importance for mass and isotope distributions of produced hyperfragments is emphasized. New and exotic isotopes obtained within these processes may provide a unique opportunity for investigating hyperon interaction in nuclear matter.