1. Search for the $\eta$ mesic $^3$He in the $pd\rightarrow d p \pi^{0}$ reaction with the WASA-at-COSY facility
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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bashkanov, M., Bass, S. D., Bergmann, F. S., Berlowski, M., Bondar, A., Buscher, M., Calen, H., Ciepal, I., Clement, H., Czerwinski, E., Demmich, K., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Fohl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Heijkenskjold, L., Hejny, V., Husken, N., Hirenzaki, S., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kelkar, N. G., Kemmerling, G., Khoukaz, A., Khreptak, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Klos, B., Krzemien, W., Kulessa, P., Kupsc, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Marianski, B., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Parol, W., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Prasuhn, D., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rundel, O., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Stroher, H., Szczurek, A., Wolke, M., Wronska, A., Wustner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zielinski, M. J., Zlomanczuk, J., and Zurek, M.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The excitation function for the $pd\rightarrow$ $d p \pi^{0}$ reaction has been measured by WASA-at-COSY experiment with the aim of searching for $^{3}\hspace{-0.03cm}\mbox{He}$-$\eta$ mesic nuclei. The measurement in the vicinity of $\eta$ meson production was performed using a ramped proton beam. The data analysis and interpretation was carried out with the assumption that the $\eta$-mesic Helium decays via the formation of an intermediate N$^{*}$(1535) resonance. No direct signal of the $\eta$-mesic nucleus is observed in the excitation function. We determine a new improved upper limit for the total cross section for the bound state production and decay in the $pd\rightarrow$ $(^{3}\hspace{-0.03cm}\mbox{He}$-$\eta)_{bound} \rightarrow$ $d p \pi^{0}$ process. It varies between 13 nb to 24 nb for the bound state with width in the range $\Gamma \in (5,50)$ MeV.
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- 2020
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