η\eta-nucleus interaction from the d+dd+d reaction around the η\eta production threshold

Aug 25, 2017
14 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.A 53 (2017) 10, 194
  • Published: Oct 11, 2017
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Abstract: (Springer)
The η\eta mesic nucleus is considered to be one of the interesting exotic many-body systems and has been studied since the 1980s theoretically and experimentally. Recently, the formation of the η\eta mesic nucleus in the fusion reactions of the light nuclei such as d+d(η+α)Xd + d \rightarrow (\eta + \alpha) \rightarrow X has been proposed and the experiments have been performed by WASA-at-COSY. We develop a theoretical model to evaluate the formation rate of the η\eta mesic nucleus in the fusion reactions and show the calculated results. We find that the η\eta bound states could be observed in the reactions in cases with the strong attractive and small absorptive η\eta -nucleus interactions. We compare our results with existing data of the d+dη+αd + d \rightarrow \eta + \alpha and the d+d3He+N+πd + d \rightarrow {}^{3}He + N + \pi reactions. We find that the analyses by our theoretical model with the existing data can provide new information on the η\eta -nucleus interaction.
Note:
  • 14 pages, 31 figures, 1 table, submitted to EPJA
  • threshold: production
  • fusion
  • many-body problem
  • light nucleus
  • bound state: formation
  • meson: bound state
  • form factor: transition
  • mesic atom
  • eta(958): bound state
  • symmetry: chiral