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The decay of antiprotonic atoms may lead to the formation of hypernuclei that can be produced via strangeness exchange reactions following the antiproton-nucleon annihilation. To estimate the hypernuclei yields that can be expected by these kind of reactions, simulations were performed within the GiBUU transport framework.
Using $^{16}$O, $^{40}$Ar, $^{84}$Kr and $^{132}$Xe as target nuclei, it was shown that the formation of antiprotonic atoms provides access to currently undiscovered hyperisotopes with typical production rates of 10$^{-5}$ to 10$^{-4}$ per annihilation per hypernucleus. In this contribution, the results of recent calculations will be detailed [1]. The experimental requirements to investigate hypernuclei at ELENA produced in this way will be discussed.
[1] Schmidt, A., Gaitanos, T., Obertelli, A. et al. Production of hypernuclei from antiproton capture within a relativistic transport model. Eur. Phys. J. A 60, 55 (2024)
