Detailed comparison of the pp ---> pi+pn and pp ---> pi+d reactions at 951-MeV

Collaboration
Dec, 2004
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 610 (2005) 31-36
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Abstract:
The positively charged pions produced in proton-proton collisions at a beam momentum of 1640 MeV/c were measured in the forward direction with a high resolution magnetic spectrograph. The missing mass distribution shows the bound state (deuteron) clearly separated from the pnpn continuum. Despite the very good resolution, there is no evidence for any significant production of the pnpn system in the spin-singlet state. However, the σ(ppπ+pn)/σ(ppπ+d)\sigma(pp\to \pi^+pn)/\sigma(pp\to \pi^+d) cross section ratio is about twice as large as that predicted from SS-wave final-state-interaction theory and it is suggested that this is due to DD-state effects in the pnpn system.
Note:
  • 8 pages, 3 figures
  • 13.75.Cs
  • 25.40.Qa
  • Pion production
  • Spin singlet/triplet final state interactions
  • p p: exclusive reaction
  • pi+: hadroproduction
  • production: small-angle
  • deuteron: hadroproduction
  • mass spectrum: missing-mass
  • channel cross section: ratio