Investigation of kaonic atom optical potential by the high precision data of kaonic ³He and ⁴He atoms

We theoretically investigate kaonic atom states based on the latest high precision data of the 2p states of the kaonic atoms in ³He and ⁴He (J-PARC E62). We consider the phenomenological form for the optical potential proportional to the nuclear density distributions and determine the potential parameters by the latest data. We find two sets of potential parameters for each of K^--³He and K^--⁴He that reproduce the data. We then extract the potential parameters consistent with the data of ³He and ⁴He atoms simultaneously. Using the potential, we investigate the structure of the kaonic atoms and kaonic nuclei for various nuclei up to Sn. We also report the optical potential parameters suited for the global description of the atomic data, the possible strong isospin dependence of the potential, and the different strength of the data of K^--³He and K^--⁴He in the restrictions on the potential parameters. In addition, we find that the study of the 1s states of the kaonic helium atom is very interesting as a next step, and the determination of the orbital angular momenta of the kaonic nuclear states is helpful for the unified understandings of the atomic and nuclear bound states of kaon because of the mutual influence between the atomic and the nuclear states of kaon with the same orbital angular momentum.