PANDA's menu:

• Charmonium
  The precision spectroscopy of all charmonium states with mass, width, decay branches, is a key experiment to be done at PANDA. From that, information on the quark confining potential can be extracted.
  
  
• Gluonic excitations: charmed hybrids, glueballs
  Another important topic is the search for objects like charmed hybrids and glueballs as they are predicted by QCD. PANDA will extend the search for those objects into the charmonium mass range (3 to 5 GeV/c²), with high statistics and spin-parity analysis in fully exclusive measurements.
  
  
• Charm in nuclei
  Furthermore, the search for in-medium-modifications of hadrons (mesons) and their possible relation to a (partial) restoration of chiral symmetry in the nuclear medium will be persued, especially for mesons containing open or hidden charm, which will shed light on the gluon contribution in this sector.
  
  
• (Double) Hypernuclei
  At PANDA, double and single Lambda hypernuclei can be produced abundantly. An experiment with precision gamma ray spectroscopy of hypernuclei for extracting information on their structure, hyperon-nucleon and hyperon-hyperon interaction is planned. In addition, Omega atoms can be formed and studied.
  
  
• Open Charm, GPD's, CP violation, transversity, timelike EM form factors
  These are additional topics which can be studied at PANDA, some of them need the HESR running at highest luminosity and thus are planned for a later stage of the program.