Published June 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

Charmonium spectroscopy from anti p-p annihilations

Creators

  • 1. INFN, Turin (Italy)
  • 2. Turin Univ. (Italy)
  • 3. Pennsylvania State Univ., PA (USA)
  • 4. Northwestern Univ., IL (USA)
  • 5. California Univ., Irvine, CA (USA)
  • 6. INFN, Genoa (Italy)
  • 7. Genoa Univ. (Italy)
  • 8. INFN, Ferrara (Italy)
  • 9. Ferrara Univ. (Italy)
  • 10. Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (USA)

Description

The study of bound states, formed by quark c and antiquark anti c (Charmonium), is a source of very important information to understand the basic theory of strong interactions. Experiment E760 at Fermilab is designed to give a precise measurement of the mass and width of the Charmonium states which cannot be formed directly in e+e- collisions. In this experiment, a non magnetic detector system, mounted inside the Antiproton source tunnel, detects the products of collisions of antiprotons, circulating inside the Accumulator vacuum pipe, with an H2 internal jet target. The excitation curve for resonance formation is obtained by changing in small steps the energy of the Antiproton beam and identifying the resonance through the detection of its electromagnetic decay products. The experiment has been running since the middle of June 1990 and, in the first two months, has collected data for an integrated luminosity of 6.4 pb-1. Scans were performed at the formation energy for Ψ, Ψ, χ1, χ2 and they have yielded precise measurements of the parameters which characterize these resonances. After a three months shut-down we will resume data taking to study singlet Charmonium states. (orig.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
21
Series
Nucl. Phys., B Proc. Suppl.
Journal Page Range
400-412
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE

Conference

Title
Rheinfels workshop on hadron mass spectrum.
Dates
3-6 Sep 1990.
Place
St. Goar (Germany).

Optional Information

Collaborations
E760 Collaboration.