and meson production in reactions at
Nov, 2000Citations per year
Abstract:
The exclusive production cross sections for and mesons have been measured in proton-proton reactions at GeV/c. The observed cross section ratio is . After phase space corrections, this ratio is enhanced by about an order of magnitude relative to naive predictions based upon the Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka (OZI) rule, in comparison to an enhancement by a factor previously observed at higher beam momenta. The modest increase of this enhancement near the production threshold is compared to the much larger increase of the ratio observed in specific channels of annihilation experiments. Furthermore, differential cross section results are also presented which indicate that although the meson is predominantly produced from a proton-proton entrance channel, other partial waves contribute significantly to the production mechanism at this beam momentum.Note:
- Revtex 49 pages, 11 figures, Phys Rev C in print
- p p: exclusive reaction
- rho(770): hadroproduction
- omega(783): hadroproduction
- channel cross section: ratio
- angular distribution
- differential cross section: momentum dependence
- correction: phase space
- Iizuka-Okubo-Zweig rule
- magnetic spectrometer: experimental results
- Saclay PS
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