TA-POS-2014-026

The PANDA experiment is one of the pillars of the future Facility for
Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany. The PANDA
physics program is focused on answering fundamental questions related to
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), mostly in the non-perturbative energy
regime. Spectroscopy exploiting D-mesons and Λ c -baryons that are com-
posed of a heavy charm valence quark and one or two light valence quarks
is an integral part of the PANDA physics program. Such systems can sys-
tematically provide information on various key features of QCD, such as
heavy-quark symmetry, chiral symmetry breaking, and the nature of exotic
states. In this work, the experimental feasibility of studying the production
mechanisms of associative open-charm hadrons in antiproton-proton anni-
hilations is investigated using Monte Carlo simulations. We present results
obtained for the channels p ̄ + p → D 0 D ̄ 0 and p ̄ + p → Λ + Λ − ,
highlighting the detector performances (efficiencies and resolutions) and the statistical
significance that can be achieved with the foreseen luminosities.