Study of the ABC enhancement in the polarized d d ---> alpha X**0 reaction

Oct, 1998
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 445 (1999) 423-427
e-Print:
Report number:
  • TSL-ISV-98-0197
Experiments:
  • SATURNE

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Abstract:
The polarized d d -> alpha X reaction at beam energies close to the eta threshold shows very strong structure in the missing mass corresponding to the ABC enhancement. The deuteron tensor analysing power A_yy, and the slope of the vector analysing power A_y with respect to angle, have been measured for this reaction around the forward direction. Both signals are small, and their variations with the alpha-particle momentum are in broad agreement with a theoretical model in which each pair of nucleons in the projectile and target deuterons undergoes pion production through the NN -> d pi reaction.
Note:
  • LaTeX2e, 10 pages, 3 eps figures, submitted to Physics Letters B Report-no: TSL/ISV-98-0197
  • deuteron deuteron: nuclear reaction
  • helium: hadroproduction
  • deuteron: polarized beam
  • neutral particle: associated production
  • eta: threshold
  • mass spectrum: missing-mass
  • analyzing power: tensor
  • analyzing power: slope
  • momentum dependence
  • p n: initial-state interaction