This paper reports new experimental results on the annihilation of antiprotons stopped in a4He gas target. The measurement was carried out with the Obelix spectrometer installed at the LEAR machine of CERN. Main results can be summarized as follows, (i) The invariant mass distribution of 2π+2π− produced at rest is similar to those from hydrogen and deuterium targets: the peak seen in recent experiments around 1150 MeV/c2 is absent, (ii) 2π angular correlations are very close to those found for hydrogen. The nuclear structure does not modify remarkably the pion production and emission, (iii) πp and pp angular correlations are strongly peaked close to 180°, in qualitative agreement with INC model predictions, (iv) The pp invariant mass distribution reveals events which may be due to η(ω) absorption; the estimated upper limit for probability of π and ω absorption is about 3 × 10−3. (v) Events having features compatible with two-nucleon annihilations with production of heavy mesonic systems are detected both in the 2π+ 2π− and the 2π−π+ channels. The production rate of the 2π+ 2π− channel is of the order of 5 × 10−3.

An experimental study of antiproton-4He annihilation at rest

BALESTRA, Ferruccio;BRESSANI, Tullio;BUSSA, Maria Pia;BUSSO, Luigi;COSTA, Sergio;FERRERO, Livio;GARFAGNINI, Raffaello;GRASSO, Antonino;MARCELLO, Simonetta;ZOSI, Gianfranco
1994-01-01

Abstract

This paper reports new experimental results on the annihilation of antiprotons stopped in a4He gas target. The measurement was carried out with the Obelix spectrometer installed at the LEAR machine of CERN. Main results can be summarized as follows, (i) The invariant mass distribution of 2π+2π− produced at rest is similar to those from hydrogen and deuterium targets: the peak seen in recent experiments around 1150 MeV/c2 is absent, (ii) 2π angular correlations are very close to those found for hydrogen. The nuclear structure does not modify remarkably the pion production and emission, (iii) πp and pp angular correlations are strongly peaked close to 180°, in qualitative agreement with INC model predictions, (iv) The pp invariant mass distribution reveals events which may be due to η(ω) absorption; the estimated upper limit for probability of π and ω absorption is about 3 × 10−3. (v) Events having features compatible with two-nucleon annihilations with production of heavy mesonic systems are detected both in the 2π+ 2π− and the 2π−π+ channels. The production rate of the 2π+ 2π− channel is of the order of 5 × 10−3.
1994
569(4)
761
790
antiproton annihilation; He target
A. Adamo; M. Agnello; F. Balestra; G. Belli; G. Bendiscioli; A. Bertin; P. Boccaccio; G. C. Bonazzola; T. Bressani; M. Bruschi; M. P. Bussa; L. Busso; D. Calvo; M. Capponi; P. Cerello; C. Cicalò; S. Costa; S. De Castro; F. D'Isep; A. Donzella; L. Fava; A. Feliciello; L. Ferrero; A. Filippi; V. Filippini; D. Galli; R. Garfagnini; U. Gastaldi; P. Gianotti; A. Grasso; C. Guaraldo; F. Iazzi; D. E. Kharzeev; A. Lanaro; E. Lodi Rizzini; M. Lombardi; V. Lucherini; A. Maggiora; S. Marcello; U. Marconi; G. V. Margagliotti; G. Maron; A. Masoni; I. Massa; B. Minetti; P. Montagna; M. Morando; F. Nichitiu; D. Panzieri; P. Pauli; M. Piccinini; G. Piragino; M. Poli; G. Puddu; R. A. Ricci; E. Rossetto; A. Rotondi; A. M. Rozhdenstvensky; A. Saino; P. Salvini; L. Santi; M. G. Sapozhnikovl N. Semprini Cesari; S. Serci; R. Spighi; P. P. Temnikov; S. Tessaro; F. Tosello; V. I. Tretyak; G. L. Usai; L. Vannucci; S. Vecchi; G. Vedovato; L. Venturelli; M. Villa; A. Vitale; A. Zenoni; A. Zoccoli; G. Zosi
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