Observation of a fine structure in e+ee^+ e^− \to hadrons production at the nucleon-antinucleon threshold

Jul 31, 2018
5 pages
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  • Phys.Lett.B 794 (2019) 64-68
  • Published: Jul 10, 2019
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A study of hadron production at the nucleon-antinucleon threshold has been performed with the CMD-3 detector at the VEPP-2000 e+e− collider. The very fast rise with about 1 MeV width has been observed in the e+e−→pp¯ cross section. A sharp drop in the e+e−→3(π+π−) cross section has been confirmed and found to have a less than 2 MeV width, in agreement with the observed fast rise of the e+e−→pp¯ cross section. For the first time a similar sharp drop is demonstrated in the e+e−→K+K−π+π− cross section. The behavior of the e+e−→3(π+π−),K+K−π+π− cross sections cannot be explained by an interference of any resonance amplitude with continuum, therefore this phenomenon cannot be due to a narrow near-threshold resonance. No such structure has been observed in the e+e−→2(π+π−) cross section.
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  • 7 pages, 5 figures
  • 13.66.Bc
  • 14.40.Cs
  • 13.25.Gv
  • 13.25.Jx
  • 13.20.Jf
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • pi: multiple production
  • K: pair production
  • hadron: electroproduction