Observable hadronic matter is mostly composed of u, d quarks. The strangeness degree of freedom is expected to play an important role in dense nuclear matter in the form of hyperons, baryons with at least one valence strange quark. Hyperons can form bound nuclear systems with nucleons and create short-lived hypernuclei which decay on the time-scale of the weak interaction (typically 200 ps)....
The CERN HIE-ISOLDE facility accelerates a unique worldwide variety of radioactive ions up to collision energies close to 10 MeV/A. The physics program encompasses a broad range of nuclear structure studies, from shell evolution to nuclear astrophysics. To fully profit from the new facility, our collaboration has proposed the construction of the “Superconducting Recoil Separator” ISRS will...
