Chiral SU(3) Dynamics and Antikaon-Nuclear quasibound States
  Recent developments are summarised concerning low-energy KbarN interactions as they relate to the possible existence of antikaon-nuclear quasibound states. An exploratory study of antikaons bound to finite nuclei is performed, with emphasis on the evolution of such states from light to heavy nuclei (A = 16 - 208). The energy dependent, driving attractive KbarN interactions are constructed using the s-wave coupled-channel amplitudes involving the Lambda(1405) and resulting from chiral SU(3) dynamics, plus p-wave amplitudes dominated by the Sigma(1385). Effects of Pauli and short-range correlations are discussed. The decay width induced by K^-NN two-body absorption is estimated and found to be substantial. It is concluded that Kbar-nuclear quasibound states can possibly exist with binding energies ranging from 60 to 100 MeV, but with short life times corresponding to decay widths of the similar magnitudes. 
Wolfram Weise and Rainer Hartle