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A wide range of dark matter candidates have been proposed and are actively being searched for in a large number of experiments, both at high (TeV) and low (sub meV) energies. One dark matter candidate, a deeply bound uuddss sexaquark, S , with mass ∼ 2 GeV (having the same quark content as the hypothesized H-dibaryon, but long lived) is particularly difficult to explore experimentally. In this paper, we propose a scheme in which such a state could be produced at rest through the formation of p ¯ – 3 He antiprotonic atoms and their annihilation into S + K + K + π - , identified both through the unique tag of a S = + 2 , Q = + 1 final state, as well as through full kinematic reconstruction of the final state recoiling against it.

The present study investigates the production of highly charged ions (HCIs) through the novel application of antiprotonic atoms and explores their potential for studying atomic and nuclear structures. Utilizing the Geant4 simulation toolkit, comprehensive simulations were conducted for all known isotopes with atomic numbers below 100. These simulations recorded key parameters of the resulting nuclear fragments, including mass, momentum, charge, and yield. The results obtained from this study offer valuable insights into the mechanisms of HCI production and provide a foundation for planning and analyzing future experimental investigations. This work demonstrates the feasibility of using antiprotonic atoms to advance nuclear and atomic physics research.

The unambiguous identification of hadron modifications in hot and dense QCD matter is one of the important goals in nuclear physics. In the regime of 1 - 2 GeV kinetic energy per nucleon, HADES has measured rare and penetrating probes in elementary and heavy-ion collisions. The main creation mechanism of mesons is the excitation and decay of baryonic resonances throughout the fireball evolution. The reconstruction of shortlived (≈ 1 fm/c) resonance states through their decay products is notoriously difficult. We have developed a new iterative algorithm, which builds the best hypothesis of signal and background by distortion of individual particle properties. This allows to extract signals with signal-to-background ratios of <1%.

Experiments at snn s NN = 2 − 3 3 GeV provide the lowest energy point of the global effort made by the heavy-ion community in order to map the QCD phase diagram. This correspond to the highest baryon chemical potential, 700-900 MeV according to the universal freeze-out curve, and temperatures of the fireball of 60-80 MeV. The formed matter can be characterized in terms of particle spectra, fluctuations and correlations. The dilepton spectrum is dominated by thermal emission from the medium and it is sensitive to in medium hadron properties. Strangeness production occurs below the free nucleon-nucleon threshold and it is a sensitive probe to test models of strangeness propagation in matter and its coupling to baryons. Data show a common scaling of measured yields as a function of number of participating nucleons independently on the strangeness content or mass of the hadron. Strangeness propagation in cold nuclear matter produced in pion induced reactions on heavy and light targets shows a significant absorption of negative kaons in heavy targets as well as a similar behaviour of ϕ indicating a strong coupling of ϕ with nucleons. Two-pion correlations, flow harmonics, fluctuations are explored as well in order to further pin down the properties of the created matter.

Heavy ion collisions at few GeV per nucleon energy range according to microscopic transport model calculations, create matter with densities several times larger that the ground density and heated to temperatures of 90 MeV. At such conditions the fundamental properties of the particles might be modified. Promising observables are the rare (multi-) strange hadrons and dileptons. The High Acceptance DiElectron Spectrometer was designed to measure rare and penetrating probes. It is a fixed target experiment located at SIS18 accelerator at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany. Recent results on dileptons and strangeness production in Au+Au collisions at center of mass energy s N N = 2.42 GeV are presented. Moreover, future experiments and upgrades of the apparatus are discussed.

The AEg̅IS collaboration at CERN’s AD produces antihydrogen atoms in the form of a pulsed, isotropic source with a precisely defined formation time. AEg̅IS has recently undergone major upgrades to fully benefit from the increased number of colder antiprotons provided by the new ELENA decelerator and to move toward forming a horizontal beam to directly investigate the influence of gravity on the H̅ atoms, thereby probing the Weak Equivalence Principle for antimatter. This contribution gives an overview of these upgrades as well as subsequent results from the first beam times with ELENA.

. The reconstruction of broad resonances is important for understanding the dynamics of heavy ion collisions. However, the large combinatorial background makes this objective very challenging. In this work an innovative iterative method which identifies signal and background contributions without input models for normalization constants is presented. This technique is successfully validated on a simulated thermal cocktail of resonances. This demonstrates that the iterative procedure is a powerful tool to reconstruct multi-differentially inclusive resonant signals in high multiplicity events as produced in heavy ion collisions.

The reconstruction of broad resonances is important for understanding the dynamics of heavy ion collisions. However, large combinatorial background makes this objective very challenging. In this work an innovative iterative method which identifies signal and background contributions without input models for normalization constants is presented. This technique is successfully validated on a simulated thermal cocktail of resonances. This demonstrates that the iterative procedure is a powerful tool to reconstruct multi-differentially inclusive resonant signals in high multiplicity events as produced in heavy ion collisions.

We describe how the annihilation of antiprotons can be utilized to generate highly charged isomeric ions in an ion-trap setup. We identify optical transitions in the hyperfine splitting of Hydrogen-like atoms composed of an isomer and a single electron in the ground state. We identify promising candidates in the isomers of Y, Nb, Rh, In, and Sb, for which the hyperfine transition lies in the infrared and whose excited state level lifetime is in the hundreds of milliseconds, which is suitable for metrology applications.

A powerful and robust control system is a crucial, often neglected, pillar of any modern, complex physics experiment that requires the management of a multitude of different devices and their precise time synchronisation. The AEgIS collaboration presents CIRCUS, a novel, autonomous control system optimised for time-critical experiments such as those at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator and, more broadly, in atomic and quantum physics research. Its setup is based on Sinara/ARTIQ and TALOS, integrating the ALPACA analysis pipeline, the last two developed entirely in AEgIS. It is suitable for strict synchronicity requirements and repeatable, automated operation of experiments, culminating in autonomous parameter optimisation via feedback from real-time data analysis. CIRCUS has been successfully deployed and tested in AEgIS; being experiment-agnostic and released open-source, other experiments can leverage its capabilities.