1. Δ(1232) Dalitz decay in proton-proton collisions at T=1.25 GeV measured with HADES at GSI
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V. Pechenov, C. Höhne, M. G. Wiebusch, O. Petukhov, T. Heinz, Christoph Blume, M. Lorenz, J. Siebenson, A. Dybczak, V. Petousis, S. Hlavac, E. Schwab, O. V. Fateev, J. C. Berger-Chen, A. Rost, L. Chlad, W. Kühn, B. Ramstein, E. Usenko, A. K. Kurilkin, H. Schuldes, P. Rosier, J. Pietraszko, S. Harabasz, A.P. Ierusalimov, B. Kämpfer, W. Koenig, A. Sadovsky, F. Scozzi, L. Lopes, Marek Palka, J. Adamczewski-Musch, J. A. Garzón, P. Filip, C. Sturm, M. Gumberidze, B. W. Kolb, Fedor Guber, E. Morinière, Yu. G. Sobolev, C. Müntz, C. Wendisch, T. Scheib, I. Koenig, P. Bordalo, T. Galatyuk, A. Lebedev, Oliver Werner Arnold, R. Holzmann, L. Naumann, M. Böhmer, A. Mangiarotti, L. Silva, J. Markert, B. Kardan, L. Maier, A. Belounnas, A. B. Kurepin, A. V. Sarantsev, M. Traxler, S. Ramos, K. Nowakowski, C. Deveaux, V. P. Ladygin, T. Hennino, Roman Gernhäuser, Yu.V. Zanevsky, A. Blanco, P. Fonte, A. Kugler, A. Ivashkin, R. Kotte, P. K. Kurilkin, M. B. Golubeva, P. Rodriguez-Ramos, Sergey V. Morozov, J. Stroth, R. Lalik, T. Liu, O. Svoboda, S. Spataro, I. Fröhlich, G. Kornakov, Andrey Reshetin, C. Franco, R. H. Munzer, D. M. Mihaylov, Grzegorz Korcyl, H. Tsertos, Laura Fabbietti, T. Kunz, P. Tlusty, Kirill Lapidus, Tatiana Karavicheva, C. Behnke, Witold Przygoda, S. P. Chernenko, Volker Metag, Yiannis Parpottas, J. Michel, J. Wirth, O. Pechenova, J. Friese, H. Ströbele, V. Wagner, T. Mahmoud, P. Sellheim, P. Strzempek, E. T. Atomssa, J. Biernat, Paolo Finocchiaro, S. Maurus, F. Seck, Eliane Epple, J. Dreyer, Alexander Belyaev, P. Zumbruch, and P. Salabura
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Physics ,Quark ,Particle physics ,Proton ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Branching fraction ,Partial wave analysis ,Nuclear Theory ,Hadron ,Kinetic energy ,01 natural sciences ,Particle identification ,Nuclear physics ,Particle decay ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics - Abstract
We report on the investigation of Δ(1232) production and decay in proton-proton collisions at a kinetic energy of 1.25 GeV measured with HADES. Exclusive dilepton decay channels ppe+e− and ppe+e−γ have been studied and compared with the partial-wave analysis of the hadronic ppπ0 channel. They allow to access both Δ+→pπ0(e+e−γ) and Δ+→pe+e− Dalitz decay channels. The perfect reconstruction of the well-known π0 Dalitz decay serves as a proof of the consistency of the analysis. The Δ Dalitz decay is identified for the first time and the sensitivity to N-Δ transition form factors is tested. The Δ(1232) Dalitz decay branching ratio is also determined for the first time; our result is (4.19 ± 0.62 syst. ± 0.34 stat.) ×10−5, albeit with some model dependence.
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- 2017