95 research outputs found
Elastic scattering of low energy pions by nuclei and the in-medium isovector pi N amplitude
Measurements of elastic scattering of 21.5 MeV pi+ and pi- by Si, Ca, Ni and
Zr were made using a single arm magnetic spectrometer. Absolute calibration was
made by parallel measurements of Coulomb scattering of muons. Parameters of a
pion-nucleus optical potential were obtained from fits to all eight angular
distributions put together. The `anomalous' s-wave repulsion known from pionic
atoms is clearly observed and could be removed by introducing a
chiral-motivated density dependence of the isovector scattering amplitude,
which also greatly improved the fits to the data. The empirical energy
dependence of the isoscalar amplitude also improves the fits to the data but,
contrary to what is found with pionic atoms, on its own is incapable of
removing the anomaly.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables. V2 added details on
uncertainties,extended discussion. To appear in PR
Search for the Hypothetical pi -> mu x Decay
The KARMEN collaboration has reported the possible observation of a hitherto
unknown neutral and weakly interacting particle x, which is produced in the
decay pi -> mu + x with a mass m(x) = 33.9 MeV. We have searched for this
hypothetical decay branch by studying muons from pion decay in flight with the
LEPS spectrometer at the piE3 channel at PSI and find branching ratios BR(pi-
to mu- anti-x) < 4e-7 and BR(pi+ to mu+ x) < 7e-8 (95\% C.L.). Together with
the limit BR > 2e-8 derived in a recent theoretical paper our result would
leave only a narrow region for the existence of x if it is a heavy neutrino.Comment: 10 pages, TeX (uses epsf), 3 Postscript figures uu-encode
Photoproduction of pi0 omega off protons for E(gamma) < 3 GeV
Differential and total cross-sections for photoproduction of gamma proton to
proton pi0 omega and gamma proton to Delta+ omega were determined from
measurements of the CB-ELSA experiment, performed at the electron accelerator
ELSA in Bonn. The measurements covered the photon energy range from the
production threshold up to 3GeV.Comment: 8 pages, 13 figure
Photoproduction of eta mesons off protons for photon energies from 0.75 GeV to 3 GeV
Total and differential cross sections for the reaction p(gamma, eta)p have
been measured for photon energies in the range from 750 MeV to 3 GeV. The
low-energy data are dominated by the S11 wave which has two poles in the energy
region below 2 GeV. Eleven nucleon resonances are observed in their decay into
p eta. At medium energies we find evidence for a new resonance N(2070)D15 with
(mass, width) = (2068+-22, 295+-40) MeV. At photon energies above 1.5 GeV, a
strong peak in forward direction develops, signalling the exchange of vector
mesons in the t channel.Comment: LaTeX, 4 pages including 4 eps-figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
The publication of hep-ex/0311045 is accompanied by hep-ex/0407022 on
photoproduction of neutral pions, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Fits
published in the latest version are based on additional data, new beam
asymmetry data from GRAAL are included, for instance. The data demanded more
resonant contributions which were studied in detail. PWA reference adde
Neutral pion photoproduction off protons in the energy range 0.3 GeV < E(gamma) < 3 GeV
Single pi0 photoproduction has been studied with the CB-ELSA experiment at
Bonn using tagged photon energies between 0.3 and 3.0 GeV. The experimental
setup covers a very large solid angle of about 98% of 4 pi. Differential cross
sections (d sigma)/(d Omega) have been measured. Complicated structures in the
angular distributions indicate a variety of different resonances being produced
in the s channel intermediate state gamma p --> N* (Delta*) --> p pi0. A
combined analysis including the data presented in this letter along with other
data sets reveals contributions from known resonances and evidence for a new
resonance N(2070)D15.Comment: LaTeX file, 4 pages, 4 encapsulated postscript figures, submitted to
Phys. Rev. Lett. The publication of hep-ex/0407022 is accompanied by
hep-ex/0311045 on photoproduction of eta mesons. Reference [3]: changed,
reference [17]: citation added. Figure 3, 4: SAID added up to 2 GeV for
comparison, update
N* and Delta* decays into N pi0 pi0
Decays of baryon resonances in the second and the third resonance region into
N pi0 pi0 are studied by photoproduction of two neutral pions off protons.
Partial decay widths of N* and Delta* resonances decaying into Delta(1232) pi,
N(\pi\pi)_{S}, N(1440)P_{11} pi, and N(1520)D_{13} pi are determined in a
partial wave analysis of this data, and data from other reactions. Several
partial decay widths were not known before. Interesting decay patterns are
observed which are not even qualitatively reproduced by quark model
calculations. In the second resonance region, decays into Delta(1232) pi
dominate clearly. The N(\pi\pi)_{S}-wave provides a significant contribution to
the cross section, especially in the third resonance region. The P_{13}(1720)
properties found here are at clear variance to PDG values.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, long author's lis
A high resolution search for the tensor glueball candidate [xi] (2230) Crystal Barrel Collaboration
We report results of a high resolution search for the tensor glueball candidate Ο(2230) in a pÌp formation experiment. Ï0Ï0 and ηη decay channels were measured in a scan of the mass region 2220 MeV to 2240 MeV. No evidence for the existence of Ο(2230) was found. 95% confidence upper limits for the possible existence of Ο are presented
DEPFET - a pixel device with integrated amplification
In the DEPFET pixel concept, the absorbed radiation directly modulates the channel current of a p-JFET transistor being integrated into a fully depleted high ohmic silicon substrate in every pixel cell, offering very low noise operation at room temperature. Hence, DEPFET pixels open new possibilities in biomedical applications, but also have a potential in particle physics and astrophysics. Second prototype 50 mum x 50 mum single pixels as well as large (64 x 64) DEPFET matrices have been successfully produced and operated confirming the low noise behavior (12e). Device studies as well as a full DEPFET pixel Bioscope system to be used in real-time digital autoradiography with excellent spatial and energy resolution for X-rays are presented. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved
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