Production of hypernuclei with hadronic and electromagnetic probes

We present an overview of a fully covariant formulation for describing hypernuclear production with hadronic and electromagnetic probes. This theory is based on an effective Lagrangian picture and it focuses on production amplitudes that are described via creation, propagation and decay into relevant channels of N ∗ (1650), N ∗ (1710) and N ∗ (1720) intermediate baryonic resonance states in the initial collision of the projectile with one of the target nucleons. The bound state nucleon and hyperon wave functions are obtained by solving the Dirac equation with appropriate scalar and vector potentials. Specific examples are discussed for reactions which are of interest in current and future experiments on hypernuclear production.