Published June 15, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurement of the η→3π0 Dalitz plot distribution with the WASA detector at COSY

  • 1. Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058 Erlangen (Germany)
  • 2. Juelich Center for Hadron Physics, Forschungszentrum Juelich, 52425 Juelich (Germany)
  • 3. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Juelich, 52425 Juelich (Germany)
  • 4. Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Tuebingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, 72076 Tuebingen (Germany)
  • 5. Few Body System Laboratory, High Energy Physics Division, St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Orlova Rosha 2, 188300 Gatchina (Russian Federation)
  • 6. High Energy Physics Department, The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, ul. Hoza 69, 00-681, Warsaw (Poland)
  • 7. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, 400076 Maharashtra (India)
  • 8. Helmholtz-Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn, Nussallee 14-16, 53115 Bonn (Germany)
  • 9. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, akademika Lavrentieva prospect 11, 630090 Novosibirsk (Russian Federation)
  • 10. Division of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, 75120 Uppsala (Sweden)

Description

In the first production run of the WASA experiment at COSY, the eta decay into three neutral pions was measured in proton-proton interactions at a proton beam kinetic energy of 1.4 GeV. The Dalitz plot of the three pions was studied using 1.2x105 fully reconstructed events, and the quadratic slope parameter α was determined to be -0.027±0.008(stat)±0.005(syst). The result is consistent with previous measurements and further corroborates the importance of pion-pion final state interactions.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.03.063

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.03.063;
arXiv
arXiv:0811.2763v1;
PII
S0370-2693(09)00360-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
677
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 24-29
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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