Exclusive measurement of the η→π +π -γ decay

P. Adlarson, C. Adolph, W. Augustyniak, W. Bardan, M. Bashkanov, T. Bednarski, F. S. Bergmann, M. Berłowski, H. Bhatt, K. T. Brinkmann, M. Büscher, H. Calén, H. Clement, D. Coderre, E. Czerwiński, E. Doroshkevich, R. Engels, W. Erven, W. Eyrich, P. FedoretsK. Föhl, K. Fransson, F. Goldenbaum, P. Goslawski, K. Grigoryev, C. O. Gullström, C. Hanhart, L. Heijkenskjöld, J. Heimlich, V. Hejny, F. Hinterberger, M. Hodana, B. Höistad, M. Jacewicz, A. Jany, B. R. Jany, L. Jarczyk, T. Johansson, B. Kamys, G. Kemmerling, O. Khakimova, A. Khoukaz, S. Kistryn, J. Klaja, H. Kleines, B. Kłos, F. Kren, W. Krzemień, P. Kulessa, A. Kupść, K. Lalwani, S. Leupold, B. Lorentz, A. Magiera, R. Maier, B. Mariański, P. Marciniewski, U. G. Meißner, M. Mikirtychiants, H. P. Morsch, P. Moskal, B. K. Nandi, S. Niedźwiecki, H. Ohm, A. Passfeld, C. Pauly, E. Perez del Rio, T. Petri, Y. Petukhov, N. Piskunov, P. Pluciński, P. Podkopał, A. Povtoreyko, D. Prasuhn, A. Pricking, K. Pysz, A. Pyszniak, T. Rausmann, C. F. Redmer*, J. Ritman, Z. Rudy, S. Sawant, S. Schadmand, A. Schmidt, T. Sefzick, V. Serdyuk, M. Siemaszko, R. Siudak, T. Skorodko, M. Skurzok, J. Smyrski, V. Sopov, R. Stassen, J. Stepaniak, G. Sterzenbach, H. Stockhorst, F. Stollenwerk, H. Ströher, A. Szczurek, A. Täschner, C. Terschlüsen, T. Tolba, A. Trzciński, R. Varma, P. Vlasov, G. J. Wagner, W. Weglorz, A. Winnemöller, A. Wirzba, M. Wolke, A. Wrońska, P. Wüstner, P. Wurm, X. Yuan, L. Yurev, J. Zabierowski, M. J. Zieliński, W. Zipper, J. Złomańczuk, P. Zuprański

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Abstract

An exclusive measurement of the decay η→π +π -γ has been performed at the WASA facility at COSY. The η mesons were produced in the fusion reaction pd→He3 X at a proton beam momentum of 1.7 GeV/c. Efficiency corrected differential distributions have been extracted based on 13960±140 events after background subtraction. The measured pion angular distribution is consistent with a relative p-wave of the two-pion system, whereas the measured photon energy spectrum was found at variance with the simplest gauge invariant matrix element of η→π +π -γ. A parameterization of the data can be achieved by the additional inclusion of the empirical pion vector form factor multiplied by a first-order polynomial in the squared invariant mass of the π +π - system.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)243-249
Number of pages7
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume707
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Jan 2012

Keywords

  • η meson
  • Box anomaly
  • Exclusive measurement

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