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1. Spin decoherence and off-resonance behavior of radiofrequency-driven spin rotations in storage rings

Author

Nikolaev, N. N., Rathmann, F., Slim, J., Andres, A., Hejny, V., Nass, A., Kacharava, A., Lenisa, P., Pretz, J., Saleev, A., Shmakova, V., Soltner, H., Abusaif, F., Aggarwal, A., Aksentev, A., Alberdi, B., Barion, L., Bekman, I., Beyß, M., Böhme, C., Breitkreutz, B., Canale, N., Ciullo, G., Dymov, S., Fröhlich, N. -O., Gebel, R., Gaisser, M., Grigoryev, K., Grzonka, D., Hetzel, J., Javakhishvili, O., Kamerdzhiev, V., Karanth, S., Keshelashvili, I., Kononov, A., Laihem, K., Lehrach, A., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Macharashvili, G., Magiera, A., Mchedlishvili, D., Melnikov, A., Müller, F., Pesce, A., Poncza, V., Prasuhn, D., Shergelashvili, D., Shurkhno, N., Siddique, S., Silenko, A., Stassen, S., Stephenson, E. J., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Tagliente, G., Valdau, Y., Vitz, M., Wagner, T., Wirzba, A., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Radiofrequency-driven resonant spin rotators are routinely used as standard instruments in polarization experiments in particle and nuclear physics. Maintaining the continuous exact parametric spin-resonance condition of the equality of the spin rotator and the spin precession frequency during operation constitutes one of the challenges. We present a detailed analytic description of the impact of detuning the exact spin resonance on the vertical and the in-plane precessing components of the polarization. An important part of the formalism presented here is the consideration of experimentally relevant spin-decoherence effects. We discuss applications of the developed formalism to the interpretation of the experimental data on the novel pilot bunch approach to control the spin-resonance condition during the operation of the radiofrequency-driven Wien filter that is used as a spin rotator in the first direct deuteron electric dipole moment measurement at COSY. We emphasize the potential importance of the hitherto unexplored phase of the envelope of the horizontal polarization as an indicator of the stability of the radiofrequency-driven spin rotations in storage rings. The work presented here serves as a satellite publication to the work published concurrently on the proof of principle experiment about the so-called pilot bunch approach that was developed to provide co-magnetometry for the deuteron electric dipole moment experiment at COSY., Comment: 31 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables

Published
2023

2. Pilot bunch and co-magnetometry of polarized particles stored in a ring

Author

Slim, J., Rathmann, F., Andres, A., Hejny, V., Nass, A., Kacharava, A., Lenisa, P., Nikolaev, N. N., Pretz, J., Saleev, A., Shmakova, V., Soltner, H., Abusaif, F., Aggarwal, A., Aksentev, A., Alberdi, B., Barion, L., Bekman, I., Beyß, M., Böhme, C., Breitkreutz, B., Canale, N., Ciullo, G., Dymov, S., Fröhlich, N. -O., Gebel, R., Gaisser, M., Grigoryev, K., Grzonka, D., Hetzel, J., Javakhishvili, O., Kamerdzhiev, V., Karanth, S., Keshelashvili, I., Kononov, A., Laihem, K., Lehrach, A., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Macharashvili, G., Magiera, A., Mchedlishvili, D., Melnikov, A., Müller, F., Pesce, A., Poncza, V., Prasuhn, D., Shergelashvili, D., Shurkhno, N., Siddique, S., Silenko, A., Stassen, S., Stephenson, E. J., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Tagliente, G., Valdau, Y., Vitz, M., Wagner, T., Wirzba, A., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

In polarization experiments at storage rings, one of the challenges is to maintain the spin-resonance condition of a radio-frequency spin rotator with the spin-precessions of the orbiting particles. Time-dependent variations of the magnetic fields of ring elements lead to unwanted variations of the spin precession frequency. We report here on a solution to this problem by shielding (or masking) one of the bunches stored in the ring from the high-frequency fields of the spin rotator, so that the masked pilot bunch acts as a co-magnetometer for the other signal bunch, tracking fluctuations in the ring on a time scale of about one second. While the new method was developed primarily for searches of electric dipole moments of charged particles, it may have far-reaching implications for future spin physics facilities, such as the EIC and NICA., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures + references + supplemental material (6 pages, 2 figures, 6 tables + references)

Published
2023

4. First detection of collective oscillations of a stored deuteron beam with an amplitude close to the quantum limit

Author

Slim, J., Nikolaev, N. N., Rathmann, F., Wirzba, A., Nass, A., Hejny, V., Pretz, J., Soltner, H., Abusaif, F., Aggarwal, A., Aksentev, A., Andres, A., Barion, L., Ciullo, G., Dymov, S., Gebel, R., Gaisser, M., Grigoryev, K., Grzonka, D., Javakhishvili, O., Kacharava, A., Kamerdzhiev, V., Karanth, S., Keshelashvili, I., Lehrach, A., Lenisa, P., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Mchedlishvili, D., Müller, F., Pesce, A., Poncza, V., Prasuhn, D., Saleev, A., Shmakova, V., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Tagliente, G., Valdau, Y., Wagner, T., Weidemann, C., Wrońska, A., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Quantum Physics
Abstract

We investigated coherent betatron oscillations of a deuteron beam in the storage ring COSY, excited by a detuned radio-frequency Wien filter. The beam oscillations were detected by conventional beam position monitors. With the currently available apparatus, we show that oscillation amplitudes down to \SI{1}{\micro \meter} can be detected. The interpretation of the response of the stored beam to the detuned radio-frequency Wien filter is based on simulations of the beam evolution in the lattice of the ring and realistic time-dependent 3D field maps of the Wien filter. Future measurements of the electric dipole moment of protons will, however, require control of the relative position of counter-propagating beams in the sub-picometer range. Since here the stored beam can be considered as a rarefied gas of uncorrelated particles, we moreover demonstrate that the amplitudes of the zero-point (ground state) betatron oscillations of individual particles are only a factor of about 10 larger than the Heisenberg uncertainty limit. As a consequence of this, we conclude that quantum mechanics does not preclude the control of the beam centroids to sub-picometer accuracy. The smallest Lorentz force exerted on a single particle that we have been able to determine is \SI{10}{aN}., Comment: 20 pages, 16 figures

Published
2021
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5. Exploiting the Planck-Einstein Relation

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Engels, R., Büscher, M., Buske, P., Gan, Y., Grigoryev, K., Hanhart, Chr., Huxold, L., Kannis, C. S., Lehrach, A., Soltner, H., and Verhoeven, V.

Subjects
Physics - Atomic Physics, Quantum Physics
Abstract

The origin of quantum physics was the discovery of the base unit of electromagnetic action $h$ by Max Planck in 1900 when he analyzed the experimental results of the black body radiation. This permitted Albert Einstein a few years later to explain the photoelectric effect by the absorption of photons with an energy of $E = h \cdot f$. We exploit the Planck-Einstein relation in a new type of fundamental spectroscopic measurements of direct transitions between two states with energy differences of about 10 neV and induced frequencies of a few MHz. Employing a Lamb-shift polarimeter and a Sona transition unit, featuring a relatively simple magnetic field configuration of two opposing solenoidal coils, we were able to determine $f$ and measure $E$ independently. Only resonances corresponding to integer multiples of Planck's constant $h$ were observed in our setup, which can very well be explained quantitatively by the Schr\"odinger equation. This new method beautifully demonstrates the quantization in the micro-cosmos and allows one to measure the hyperfine splitting energies between the substates with $F=1$ and $m_F = -1, 0, +1$ of metastable hydrogen atoms as function of a magnetic field and, thus, to investigate the influence of QED corrections on the Breit-Rabi diagram.

Published
2020

6. A New Beam Polarimeter at COSY to Search for Electric Dipole Moments of Charged Particles

Author

Müller, F., Javakhishvili, O., Shergelashvili, D., Keshelashvili, I., Mchedlishvili, D., Abusaif, F., Aggarwal, A., Barion, L., Basile, S., Böker, J., Canale, N., Ciullo, G., Dymov, S., Felden, O., Gagoshidze, M., Gebel, R., Demary, N., Grigoryev, K., Grzonka, D., Hahnraths, T., Hejny, V., Kacharava, A., Kamerdzhiev, V., Karanth, S., Kulikov, A., Lehrach, A., Lenisa, P., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Macharashvili, G., Magiera, A., Metreveli, Z., Nass, A., Nikolaev, N. N., Nioradze, M., Pesce, A., Poncza, V., Prasuhn, D., Pretz, J., Rathmann, F., Saleev, A., Sefzick, T., Senichev, Yu., Shmakova, V., Slim, J., Soltner, H., Stephenson, E., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Tagliente, G., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., Wagner, T., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

A calorimetric polarimeter based on inorganic LYSO scintillators is described. It has been designed for use in a storage ring to search for electric dipole moments (EDM) of charged particles such as the proton and deuteron. Its development and first use was on the Cooler Synchrotron (COSY) at the Forschungszentrum J\"ulich with 0.97 GeV/c polarized deuterons, a particle and energy suitable for an EDM search. The search requires a polarimeter with high efficiency, large analyzing power, and stable operating characteristics. With typical beam momenta of about 1 GeV/c, the scattering of protons or deuterons from a carbon target into forward angles becomes a nearly optimal choice of an analyzing reaction. The polarimeter described here consists of 52 LYSO detector modules, arranged in 4 symmetric blocks (up, down, left, right) for energy determination behind plastic scintillators for particle identification via energy loss. The commissioning results of the current setup demonstrate that the polarimeter is ready to be employed in a first direct search for an EDM on the deuteron, which is planned at COSY in the next two years.

Published
2020
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7. Beam-based alignment at the Cooler Synchrotron COSY as a prerequisite for an electric dipole moment measurement

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Wagner, T., Nass, A., Pretz, J., Abusaif, F., Aggarwal, A., Andres, A., Bekman, I., Canale, N., Ciepal, I., Ciullo, G., Dahmen, F., Dymov, S., Ehrlich, C., Gebel, R., Grigoryev, K., Grzonka, D., Hejny, V., Hetzel, J., Kacharava, A., Kamerdzhiev, V., Karanth, S., Keshelashvili, I., Kononov, A., Kulikov, A., Laiham, K., Lehrach, A., Lenisa, P., Lomidze, N., Magiera, A., Mchedlishvili, D., Müller, F., Nikolaev, N. N., Pesce, A., Poncza, V., Rathmann, F., Retzlaff, M., Saleev, A., Schmühl, M., Shergelashvili, D., Shmakova, V., Slim, J., Stahl, A., Stephenson, E., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Tagliente, G., Talman, R., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., and Wrońska, A.

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract

The J\"ulich Electric Dipole moment Investigation (JEDI) collaboration aims at a direct measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of protons and deuterons using a storage ring. The measurement is based on a polarization measurement. In order to reach highest accuracy, one has to know the exact trajectory through the magnets, especially the quadrupoles, to avoid the influence of magnetic fields on the polarization vector. In this paper, the development of a beam-based alignment technique is described that was developed and implemented at the COoler SYnchrotron (COSY) at Forschungszentrum J\"ulich. Well aligned quadrupoles permit one to absolutely calibrate the Beam Position Monitors (BPMs). The method is based on the fact that a particle beam, which does not pass through the center of a quadrupole, experiences a deflection. The precision reached by the method is approximately 40 micro meter. Some consequences for the design of a new high precision storage ring for EDM mesasurements are discussed., Comment: Submitted to "Journal of Instrumentation (JINST)"

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2020
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8. 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.

Subjects
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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9. Differential Cross Sections for Neutron-Proton Scattering in the Region of the $d^*(2380)$ Dibaryon Resonance

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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Coderre, D., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Doroshkevich, E., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goslawski, P., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. --O., Hauenstein, F., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hodana, M., Höistad, B., Hüsken, N., Jany, A., Jany, B. R., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khoukaz, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krapp, M., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Mikirtychiants, M., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Ozerianska, I., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Podkopał, P., Prasuhn, D., Pricking, A., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Redmer, C. F., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Täschner, A., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Wurm, P., Yamamoto, A., Yurev, L., Zabierowski, J., Zink, A., Złomańczuk, J., {Ż}uprański, P., {Ż}urek, M., Workman, R. L., Briscoe, W. J., Strakovsky, I. I., and Švarc, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Differential cross sections have been extracted from exclusive and kinematically complete high-statistics measurements of quasifree polarized $\vec{n}p$ scattering performed in the energy region of the $d^*(2380)$ dibaryon resonance covering the the range of beam energies $T_n$ = 0.98 - 1.29 GeV ($\sqrt s$ = 2.32 - 2.44 GeV). The experiment was carried out with the WASA-at-COSY setup having a polarized deuteron beam impinged on the hydrogen pellet target and utilizing the quasifree process $dp \to np + p_{spectator}$. That way the $np$ differential cross section $\sigma(\Theta)$ was measured over a large angular range. The obtained angular distributions complement the corresponding analyzing power $A_y(\Theta)$ measurements published previously. A SAID partial-wave analysis incorporating the new data strengthens the finding of a resonance pole in the coupled $^3D_3 - ^3G_3$ waves.

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2020
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10. Measurement of deuteron carbon vector analyzing powers in the kinetic energy range 170-380 MeV

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JEDI Collaboration, Müller, F., Zurek, M., Bagdasarian, Z., Barion, L., Berz, M., Ciepal, I., Ciullo, G., Dymov, S., Eversmann, D., Gaisser, M., Gebel, R., Grigoryev, K., Grzonka, D., Hejny, V., Hempelmann, N., Hetzel, J., Hinder, F., Kacharava, A., Kamerdzhiev, V., Keshelashvili, I., Koop, I., Kulikov, A., Lehrach, A., Lenisa, P., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Maanen, P., Macharashvili, G., Magiera, A., Mchedlishvili, D., Nass, A., Nikolaev, N. N., Pesce, A., Prasuhn, D., Pretz, J., Rathmann, F., Rolando, V., Rosenthal, M., Saleev, A., Schmidt, V., Senichev, Y., Shergelashvili, D., Shmakova, V., Silenko, A., Slim, J., Soltner, H., Stahl, A., Stassen, R., Stephenson, E., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Tagliente, G., Talman, R., Trinkel, F., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., Valetov, E., Weidemann, C., Wronska, A., and Wüstner, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

A measurement of vector analyzing powers in elastic deuteron-carbon scattering has been performed at the Cooler Synchrotron COSY of Forschungszentrum J\"ulich, Germany. Seven kinetic beam energies between 170 and 380 MeV have been used. A vector-polarized beam from a polarized deuteron source was injected, accelerated to the final desired energy and stored in COSY. A thin needle-shaped diamond strip was used as a carbon target, onto which the beam was slowly steered. Elastically scattered deuterons were identified in the forward direction using various layers of scintillators and straw tubes. Where data exist in the literature (at 200 and 270 MeV), excellent agreement of the angular shape was found. The beam polarization of the presented data was deduced by fitting the absolute scale of the analyzing power to these references. Our results extend the world data set and are necessary for polarimetry of future electric dipole moment searches at storage rings. They will as well serve as an input for theoretical description of polarized hadron-hadron scattering.

Published
2020

11. Production of HD Molecules in Definite Hyperfine Substates

Author

Engels, R., Grigoryev, K., Kannis, C. S., Michael, Y., Ströher, H., Verhoeven, V., Büscher, M., Huxold, L., Kochenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Trofimov, V., Vasilyev, A., and Vznuzdaev, M.

Subjects
Physics - Atomic Physics
Abstract

Polarized atomic beam sources have been in operation since many years to produce either nuclear polarized atomic hydrogen or deuterium beams. In recent experiments such a source was used to polarize both isotopes independently at the same time. By recombination of the atoms, HD molecules with all possible nuclear spin combinations can be created. Those spin isomers are useful for further applications like precision spectroscopy, as polarized targets for laser-particle acceleration, polarized fuel for fusion reactors or as an option for future measurements of electric dipole moments., Comment: to be published in Physical Review Letters

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2020
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12. Storage Ring to Search for Electric Dipole Moments of Charged Particles -- Feasibility Study

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Abusaif, F., Aggarwal, A., Aksentev, A., Alberdi-Esuain, B., Andres, A., Atanasov, A., Barion, L., Basile, S., Berz, M., Böhme, C., Böker, J., Borburgh, J., Canale, N., Carli, C., Ciepał, I., Ciullo, G., Contalbrigo, M., De Conto, J. -M., Dymov, S., Felden, O., Gaisser, M., Gebel, R., Giese, N., Gooding, J., Grigoryev, K., Grzonka, D., Tahar, M. Haj, Hahnraths, T., Heberling, D., Hejny, V., Hetzel, J., Hölscher, D., Javakhishvili, O., Jorat, L., Kacharava, A., Kamerdzhiev, V., Karanth, S., Keshelashvili, I., Koop, I., Kulikov, A., Laihem, K., Lamont, M., Lehrach, A., Lenisa, P., Lomidze, I., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Macharashvili, G., Magiera, A., Makino, K., Martin, S., Mchedlishvili, D., Meißner, U. -G., Metreveli, Z., Michaud, J., Müller, F., Nass, A., Natour, G., Nikolaev, N., Nogga, A., Okropiridze, D., Pesce, A., Poncza, V., Prasuhn, D., Pretz, J., Rathmann, F., Ritman, J., Rosenthal, M., Saleev, A., Schott, M., Sefzick, T., Senichev, Y., Shankar, R., Shergelashvili, D., Shmakova, V., Siddique, S., Silenko, A., Simon, M., Slim, J., Soltner, H., Stahl, A., Stassen, R., Stephenson, E., Straatmann, H., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Tagliente, G., Talman, R., Uzikov, Y., Valdau, Y., Valetov, E., Vilella, E., Vitz, M., Vossebeld, J., Wagner, T., Weidemann, C., Wirzba, A., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Zupranski, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract

The proposed method exploits charged particles confined as a storage ring beam (proton, deuteron, possibly $^3$He) to search for an intrinsic electric dipole moment (EDM) aligned along the particle spin axis. Statistical sensitivities could approach 10$^{-29}$ e$\cdot$cm. The challenge will be to reduce systematic errors to similar levels. The ring will be adjusted to preserve the spin polarisation, initially parallel to the particle velocity, for times in excess of 15 minutes. Large radial electric fields, acting through the EDM, will rotate the polarisation from the longitudinal to the vertical direction. The slow rise in the vertical polarisation component, detected through scattering from a target, signals the EDM. The project strategy is outlined. A stepwise plan is foreseen, starting with ongoing COSY activities that demonstrate technical feasibility. Achievements to date include reduced polarization measurement errors, long horizontal plane polarization lifetimes, and control of the polarization direction through feedback from scattering measurements. The project continues with a proof-of-capability measurement (precursor experiment; first direct deuteron EDM measurement), an intermediate prototype ring (proof-of-principle; demonstrator for key technologies), and finally a high-precision electric-field storage ring., Comment: 243 pages

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2019
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13. Study of Three-Nucleon Dynamics in the dp breakup collisions using the WASA detector

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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., 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., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., 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., 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., Trzcinski, A., Wolke, M., Wronska, A., Wustner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zieli, M. J., Zlomanczuk, J., Zupranski, P., Zurek, M., Deltuva, A., Golak, J., Kozela, A., Skibinski, R., Skwira-Chalot, I., and Witala, H.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Differential cross section for the 1H(d,pp)n breakup reaction at deuteron beam energy of 340 MeV has been measured with the use of WASA detector at COSY-Juelich. The set of proton-proton coincidences registered at Forward Detector has been analysed on dense grid of kinematic variables, giving in total around 5600 data points. The cross section data are compared to theoretical predictions based on the state-of-the-art nucleon-nucleon potentials, combined with three-nucleon force, Coulomb interaction or carried out in a relativistic regime.

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2019
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14. Search for eta mesic 3He with the WASA-at-COSY facility in the pd-> 3He 2gamma and pd-> 3He 6gamma reactions

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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bass, S. D., Berłowski, M., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Czerwiński, E., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hirenzaki, S., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kelkar, N. G., Kemmerling, G., Khreptak, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, 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., Schätti--Ozerianska, I., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Trzciński, A., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report on the experimental search for the bound state of an $\eta$ meson and $^{3}\hspace{-0.03cm}\mbox{He}$ nucleus performed using the WASA-at-COSY detector setup. In order to search for the $\eta$-mesic nucleus decay, the $pd\rightarrow$ $^{3}\hspace{-0.03cm}\mbox{He} 2\gamma$ and $pd\rightarrow$ $^{3}\hspace{-0.03cm}\mbox{He} 6\gamma$ channels have been analysed. These reactions manifest the direct decay of $\eta$ meson bound in $^{3}\hspace{-0.03cm}\mbox{He}$ nucleus. This non-mesonic decay channel has been considered for the first time. When taking into account only statistical errors, the obtained excitation functions reveal a slight indication for a possible bound state signal corresponding to an $^3$He-$\eta$ nucleus width $\Gamma$ above 20 MeV and binding energy $B_s$ between 0 and 15 MeV. However, the determined cross sections are consistent with zero in the range of the systematic uncertainty. Therefore, as final result we estimate only the upper limit for the cross section of the $\eta$-mesic $^{3}\hspace{-0.03cm}\mbox{He}$ nucleus formation followed by the $\eta$ meson decay which varies between $2$ nb and $15$ nb depending on possible bound state parameters., Comment: Article accepted to be published in PLB

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2019
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15. The LHCSpin Project

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Aidala, C. A., Bacchetta, A., Boglione, M., Bozzi, G., Carassiti, V., Chiosso, M., Cimino, R., Ciullo, G., Contalbrigo, M., D'Alesio, U., Di Nezza, P., Engels, R., Grigoryev, K., Keller, D., Lenisa, P., Liuti, S., Metz, A., Mulders, P. J., Murgia, F., Nass, A., Panzieri, D., Pappalardo, L. L., Pasquini, B., Pisano, C., Radici, M., Rathmann, F., Reggiani, D., Schlegel, M., Scopetta, S., Steffens, E., and Vasilyev, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

LHCSpin aims at installing a polarized gas target in front of the LHCb spectrometer, bringing, for the first time, polarized physics to the LHC. The project will benefit from the experience achieved with the installation of an unpolarized gas target at LHCb during the LHC Long Shutdown 2. LHCb will then become the first experiment simultaneously running in collider and fixed-target mode with polarized targets, opening a whole new range of explorations to its exceptional spectrometer. LHCSpin will offer a unique opportunity to probe polarized quark and gluon parton distributions in nucleons and nuclei, especially at high $x$ and intermediate $Q^2$, where experimental data are still largely missing. Beside standard collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs), LHCSpin will make it possible to study multidimensional polarized parton distributions that depend also on parton transverse momentum. The study of the multidimensional partonic structure of the nucleon, particularly including polarization effects, can test our knowledge of QCD at an unprecedented level of sophistication, both in the perturbative and nonperturbative regime. At the same time, an accurate knowledge of hadron structure is necessary for precision measurements of Standard Model (SM) observables and discovery of physics beyond the SM. Due to the intricate nature of the strong interaction, it is indispensable to perform the widest possible suite of experimental measurements. It will be ideal to have two new projects complementing each other: a new facility for polarized electron-proton collisions and a new facility for polarized proton-proton collisions. LHCSpin stands out at the moment as the most promising candidate for the second type of project, going beyond the kinematic coverage and the accuracy of the existent experiments, especially on the heavy-quark sector.

Published
2019

16. Feasibility Study for an EDM Storage Ring

Author

Abusaif, F., Aggarwal, A., Aksentev, A., Alberdi-Esuain, B., Barion, L., Basile, S., Berz, M., Beyß, M., Böhme, C., Böker, J., Borburgh, J., Carli, C., Ciepał, I., Ciullo, G., Contalbrigo, M., De Conto, J. -M., Dymov, S., Engels, R., Felden, O., Gagoshidze, M., Gaisser, M., Gebel, R., Giese, N., Grigoryev, K., Grzonka, D., Hanraths, T., Hanhart, C., Heberling, D., Hejny, V., Hetzel, J., Hölscher, D., Javakhishvili, O., Kacharava, A., Karanth, S., Käseberg, C., Kamerdzhiev, V., Keshelashvili, I., Koop, I., Kulikov, A., Laihem, K., Lamont, M., Lehrach, A., Lenisa, P., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Macharashvili, G., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Makino, K., Martin, S., Mchedlishvili, D., Meißner, U. -G., Metreveli, Z., Michaud, J., Müller, F., Nass, A., Natour, G., Nikolaev, N., Nogga, A., Pesce, A., Poncza, V., Prasuhn, D., Pretz, J., Rathmann, F., Ritman, J., Rosenthal, M., Saleev, A., Schott, M., Sefzick, T., Senichev, Y., Shergelashvili, D., Shmakova, V., Siddique, S., Silenko, A., Simon, M., Slim, J., Soltner, H., Stahl, A., Stassen, R., Stephenson, E., Straatmann, H., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Tagliente, G., Tahar, M., Talman, R., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., Valetov, E., Wagner, T., Weidemann, C., Wilkin, C., Wirzba, A., Wrońska, A., and Wüstner, P.

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

This project exploits charged particles confined as a storage ring beam (proton, deuteron, possibly $^3$He) to search for an intrinsic electric dipole moment (EDM, $\vec d$) aligned along the particle spin axis. Statistical sensitivities can approach $10^{-29}$~e$\cdot$cm. The challenge will be to reduce systematic errors to similar levels. The ring will be adjusted to preserve the spin polarization, initially parallel to the particle velocity, for times in excess of 15 minutes. Large radial electric fields, acting through the EDM, will rotate the polarization ($\vec d \times\vec E$). The slow rise in the vertical polarization component, detected through scattering from a target, signals the EDM. The project strategy is outlined. It foresees a step-wise plan, starting with ongoing COSY activities that demonstrate technical feasibility. Achievements to date include reduced polarization measurement errors, long horizontal-plane polarization lifetimes, and control of the polarization direction through feedback from the scattering measurements. The project continues with a proof-of-capability measurement (precursor experiment; first direct deuteron EDM measurement), an intermediate prototype ring (proof-of-principle; demonstrator for key technologies), and finally the high precision electric-field storage ring.

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2018

17. Electrostatic deflector studies using small prototypes

Author

Grigoryev, K., Rathmann, F., Stahl, A., and Ströher, H.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract

The search for electric dipole moments of particles in storage rings requires the development of dedicated deflector elements with electrostatic fields. In these rings, electric deflectors shall be used as bending elements for the charged particles. This paper presents studies on scaled-down prototypes, a few cm in size, to investigate different deflector materials at similar electric fields but much smaller distances than real size prototypes., Comment: 5 pages, 8 figures

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2018
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18. Backward single-pion production in the $\boldsymbol{pd\rightarrow {}^3\textrm{He}\,\pi^0}$ reaction with WASA-at-COSY

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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. -O., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hüsken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khatri, G., Khoukaz, A., Khreptak, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Morsch, H. --P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Parol, W., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Prasuhn, D., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Rundel, O., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Schätti-Ozerianska, I., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Sitterberg, K., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Trzciński, A., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., Żurek, M., and Wilkin, C.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

New data on the production of single neutral pions in the $pd\rightarrow{}^3\textrm{He}\,\pi^0$ reaction are presented. For fifteen proton beam momenta between $p_p=1.60\;\textrm{GeV}/c$ and $p_p=1.74\;\textrm{GeV}/c$, differential cross sections are determined over a large fraction of the backward hemisphere. Since the only previous systematic measurements of single-pion production at these energies were made in collinear kinematics, the present work constitutes a significant extension of the current knowledge on this reaction. Even this far above the production threshold, significant changes are found in the behaviour of the angular distributions over small intervals in beam momentum., Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables submitted to EPJA

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2018
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19. Deuteron analysing powers in deuteron-proton elastic scattering at 1.2 and 2.27 GeV

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Mchedlishvili, D., Bagdasarian, Z., Barsov, S., Dymov, S., Engels, R., Gebel, R., Grigoryev, K., Haidenbauer, J., Hartmann, M., Kacharava, A., Keshelashvili, I., Khoukaz, A., Komarov, V., Kulessa, P., Kulikov, A., Lehrach, A., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Macharashvili, G., Merzliakov, S., Mikirtychyants, S., Nioradze, M., Ohm, H., Papenbrock, M., Prasuhn, D., Rathmann, F., Serdyuk, V., Shmakova, V., Stroeher, H., Tabidze, M., Tsirkov, D., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., and Wilkin, C.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

The vector and tensor analysing powers in deuteron-proton elastic scattering have been measured in the forward hemisphere at deuteron kinetic energies of 1.2 GeV and 2.27 GeV using the ANKE spectrometer at the COSY storage ring. The results are compared with other experimental data and with predictions made within the framework of Glauber multiple scattering theory., Comment: 11 pages with 8 figures. To be submitted for publication

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2018
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20. On the Production of an Isotensor Dibaryon in the $pp \to pp\pi^+\pi^-$ Reaction

Author

Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hüsken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khoukaz, A., Khreptak, O., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, 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., Rudy, Z., Rundel, O., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Schätti--Ozerianska, I., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Trzciński, A., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Exclusive measurements of the quasi-free $pp \to pp\pi^+\pi^-$ reaction have been performed by means of $pd$ collisions at $T_p$ = 1.2 GeV using the WASA detector setup at COSY. Total and differential cross sections have been obtained covering the energy region $T_p = 1.08 - 1.36$ GeV ($\sqrt s$ = 2.35 - 2.46 GeV), which includes the regions of $N^*(1440)$ and $\Delta(1232)\Delta(1232)$ resonance excitations. Calculations describing these excitations by $t$-channel meson exchange are at variance with experimental differential cross sections and underpredict substantially the measured total cross section. An isotensor $\Delta N$ dibaryon resonance with $I(J^P) = 2(1^+)$ produced associatedly with a pion is able to overcome these deficiencies. Such a dibaryon was predicted by Dyson and Xuong and more recently calculated by Gal and Garcilazo.

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2018
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21. An Isotensor Dibaryon in the $pp \to pp\pi^+\pi^-$ Reaction?

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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hüsken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khoukaz, A., Khreptak, O., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, 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., Rudy, Z., Rundel, O., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Schätti--Ozerianska, I., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Trzciński, A., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Exclusive measurements of the quasi-free $pp \to pp\pi^+\pi^-$ reaction have been carried out at WASA@COSY by means of $pd$ collisions at $T_p$ = 1.2 GeV. Total and differential cross sections have been extracted covering the energy region $T_p = 1.08 - 1.36$ GeV, which is the region of $N^*(1440)$ and $\Delta(1232)\Delta(1232)$ resonance excitations. Calculations describing these excitations by $t$-channel meson exchange are at variance with the measured differential cross sections and underpredict substantially the experimental total cross section. An isotensor $\Delta N$ dibaryon resonance with $I(J^P) = 2(1^+)$ produced associatedly with a pion is able to overcome these deficiencies., Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1803.03192

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2018
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22. Search for $C$ violation in the decay $\eta\rightarrow\pi^0+e^++e^-$ with WASA-at-COSY

Author

Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. -O., Hanhart, C., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hüsken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khatri, G., Khoukaz, A., Khreptak, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Parol, W., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Prasuhn, D., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Rundel, O., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Schätti-Ozerianska, I., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Sitterberg, K., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Trzciński, A., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., Żurek, M., and Wirzba, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report on the investigation of the rare decay $\eta\rightarrow\pi^0+\text{e}^++\text{e}^-$ which is of interest to study both $C$ violation in the electromagnetic interaction and to search for contributions from physics beyond the Standard Model, since the allowed decay via a two-photon intermediate state is strongly suppressed. The experiment has been performed using the WASA-at-COSY installation, located at the COSY accelerator of the Forschungszentrum J\"ulich, Germany. In total $3\times10^7$ events of the reaction $\text{p}+\text{d}\rightarrow{^3\text{He}}+\eta$ have been recorded at an excess energy of $Q = 59.8\,\textrm{MeV}$. Based on this data set the $C$ parity violating decay $\eta\rightarrow\pi^0+\gamma^*\rightarrow\pi^0+\textrm{e}^++\textrm{e}^-$ via a single-photon intermediate state has been searched for, resulting in new upper limits of $\Gamma\left(\eta\rightarrow\pi^0+\textrm{e}^++\textrm{e}^-\right)/ \Gamma\left(\eta\rightarrow\pi^++\pi^-+\pi^0\right) < 3.28\times10^{-5}$ and $\Gamma\left(\eta\rightarrow\pi^0+\textrm{e}^++\textrm{e}^-\right)/ \Gamma\left(\eta\rightarrow\textrm{all}\right) < 7.5\times10^{-6}\ (\textrm{CL} = 90\,\%)$, respectively., Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures, submitted to PLB

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2018
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23. Total and differential cross sections of $\eta$-production in proton-deuteron fusion for excess energies between $Q_\eta=13\;\text{MeV}$ and $Q_\eta=81\;\text{MeV}$

Author

Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. -O., Hanhart, C., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hüsken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khatri, G., Khoukaz, A., Khreptak, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Parol, W., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Prasuhn, D., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Rundel, O., Sawanta, S., Schadmand, S., Schätti-Ozerianska, I., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Sitterberg, K., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Trzciński, A., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., Żurek, M., and Wilkin, C.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

New data on both total and differential cross sections of the production of $\eta$ mesons in proton-deuteron fusion to ${}^3\text{He}\,\eta$ in the excess energy region $13.6\;\text{MeV}\leq Q_\eta \leq 80.9\;\text{MeV}$ are presented. These data have been obtained with the WASA-at-COSY detector setup located at the Forschungszentrum J\"ulich, using a proton beam at 15 different beam momenta between $p_p = 1.60\;\text{GeV}/c$ and $p_p = 1.74\;\text{GeV}/c$. While significant structure of the total cross section is observed in the energy region $20\;\text{MeV}\lesssim Q_\eta \lesssim 60\;\text{MeV}$, a previously reported sharp variation around $Q_\eta\approx 50\;\text{MeV}$ cannot be confirmed. Angular distributions show the typical forward-peaking that was reported elsewhere. For the first time, it is possible to study the development of these angular distributions with rising excess energy over a large interval., Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, preprint submitted to Physics Letters B

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2018
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24. Phase Measurement for Driven Spin Oscillations in a Storage Ring

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Hempelmann, N., Hejny, V., Pretz, J., Soltner, H., Augustyniak, W., Bagdasarian, Z., Bai, M., Barion, L., Berz, M., Chekmenev, S., Ciullo, G., Dymov, S., Eversmann, D., Gaisser, M., Gebel, R., Grigoryev, K., Grzonka, D., Guidoboni, G., Heberling, D., Hetzel, J., Hinder, F., Kacharava, A., Kamerdzhiev, V., Keshelashvili, I., Koop, I., Kulikov, A., Lehrach, A., Lenisa, P., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Maanen, P., Macharashvili, G., Magiera, A., Mchedlishvili, D., Mey, S., Müller, F., Nass, A., Nikolaev, N. N., Nioradze, M., Pesce, A., Prasuhn, D., Rathmann, F., Rosenthal, M., Saleev, A., Schmidt, V., Semertzidis, Y., Shmakova, Y. Senichev V., Silenko, A., Slim, J., Stahl, A., Stassen, R., Stephenson, E., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Tagliente, G., Talman, R., Engblom, P. Thörngren, Trinkel, F., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., Valetov, E., Vassiliev, A., Weidemann, C., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Zuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics, 13.40.Em, 11.30.Er, 29.20.D, 29.20.dg, 29.20.db
Abstract

This paper reports the first simultaneous measurement of the horizontal and vertical components of the polarization vector in a storage ring under the influence of a radio frequency (rf) solenoid. The experiments were performed at the Cooler Synchrotron COSY in J\"ulich using a vector polarized, bunched $0.97\,\textrm{GeV/c}$ deuteron beam. Using the new spin feedback system, we set the initial phase difference between the solenoid field and the precession of the polarization vector to a predefined value. The feedback system was then switched off, allowing the phase difference to change over time, and the solenoid was switched on to rotate the polarization vector. We observed an oscillation of the vertical polarization component and the phase difference. The oscillations can be described using an analytical model. The results of this experiment also apply to other rf devices with horizontal magnetic fields, such as Wien filters. The precise manipulation of particle spins in storage rings is a prerequisite for measuring the electric dipole moment (EDM) of charged particles.

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2018
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25. Spin dependence of {\eta} meson production in proton-proton collisions close to threshold

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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, 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., Gullstrom, C. -O., Heijkenskjold, L., Hejny, V., Husken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khatri, G., Khoukaz, A., Khreptak, O., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Klos, B., Krzemien, W., Kulessa, P., Kupsc, A., Kuzmin, 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., Pyszniak, A., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Rundel, O., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Schatti-Ozerianska, I., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Sitterberg, K., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Szczurek, H. Stroher A., Trzcinski, A., Wolke, M., Wronska, A., Wustner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zielinski, M. J., Zlomanczuk, J., Zupranski, P., and Zurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

Taking advantage of the high acceptance and axial symmetry of the WASA-at-COSY detector, and the high degree of the polarized proton beam of COSY, the reaction pp{\to} pp{\eta} has been measured close to threshold to explore the analyzing power Ay. The angular distribution of Ay is determined with the precision improved by more than one order of magnitude with respect to previous results allowing a first accurate comparison with theoretical predictions. The determined analyzing power is consistent with zero for an excess energy of Q = 15 MeV signaling s wave production with no evidence for higher partial waves. At Q = 72 MeV the data reveals strong interference of P s and P p partial waves and cancellation of (P p) and Ss*Sd contributions. These results rule out the presently available theoretical predictions for the production mechanism of the {\eta} meson., Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett

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2017
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26. Importance of d-wave contributions in the charge symmetry breaking reaction $dd \to {}^4\text{He}\pi^0$

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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. -O., Hanhart, C., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hüsken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khatri, G., Khoukaz, A., Khreptak, O., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Parol, W., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Prasuhn, D., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Rundel, O., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Schätti-Ozerianska, I., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Sitterberg, K., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Trzciński, A., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

This letter reports a first quantitative analysis of the contribution of higher partial waves in the charge symmetry breaking reaction $dd \to {}^4\text{He}\pi^0$ using the WASA-at-COSY detector setup at an excess energy of $Q = 60$ MeV. The determined differential cross section can be parametrized as $\text{d}\sigma/\text{d}\Omega = a + b\cos^{2}\theta^*$, where $\theta^*$ is the production angle of the pion in the center-of-mass coordinate system, and the results for the parameters are $a = \left(1.55 \pm 0.46 (\text{stat}) ^{+0.32}_{-0.8} (\text{syst}) \right)$ pb/sr and $b = \left(13.1 \pm 2.1 (\text{stat}) ^{+1.0}_{-2.7} (\text{syst})\right)$ pb/sr. The data are compatible with vanishing p-waves and a sizable d-wave contribution. This finding should strongly constrain the contribution of the $\Delta$ isobar to the $dd \to {}^4\text{He}\pi^0$ reaction and is, therefore, crucial for a quantitative understanding of quark mass effects in nuclear production reactions., Comment: 5 figures

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2017
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27. Rapid fluctuation of the tensor polarization of deuteron beams behind carbon foils and their relation to the resonances in the isospin-breaking $^{12}{\rm C}(d,\alpha_{2})^{10}{\rm B}^{*}$ reaction

Author

Seyfarth, H., Rouba, A., Baryshevsky, V., Engels, R., Grigoryev, K., Rathmann, F., and Ströher, H.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Rapid fluctuations are observed in the tensor-polarization $p_{zz}$ of deuteron beams forward-transmitted through graphite targets. Unpolarized 9.50 to 18.60\,MeV beams from the K\"oln tandem accelerator were utilized, and the polarization behind seven 36 to 188\,mg/cm$^{2}$ targets was measured with a polarimeter based on the $^{3}{\rm He}(\vec{d},p)^{4}{\rm He}$ reaction. Due to the chosen relation between the areal target densities and the initial beam energies $E_{\rm in}$, the seven sets of $p_{zz}(E_{\rm in})$ can be combined in a common plot as a function of $E_{\rm in}$. This allows one to understand $p_{zz}$, measured behind the 188\,mg/cm$^{2}$ target at $E_{\rm in}$=18.6\,MeV, as resulting from the sequence of differential polarization production $\Delta p_{zz}(E)/\Delta E$ during energy degradation in the target from $E$=18.60 to 9.50\,MeV. The rapid fluctuations of $\Delta p_{zz}(E)/\Delta E$$p_{zz}$ are described by 51 Gaussian-distributed cross-sections removing deuterons either in the $m=0$ or in the $m=\pm 1$ state from the beam. The 51 fitted central energies $E_{0}$ with a single exception agree with the energies of the narrow peaks in the excitation functions of the weak, isospin-breaking $^{12}{\rm C}(d,\alpha_{2})^{10}{\rm B}^{*}(1.74\,{\rm MeV},J^{\pi}=0^{+},T=1)$ reaction with population of the second excited $^{10}{\rm B}$ state via intermediate excited $^{14}$N states. Strong evidence is found that removal of deuterons in the $m=0$ ($m=\pm 1$) state from the beam leads to the formation of $^{14}$N states of established positive (negative) parity. As an application, the removal cross-section functions allow to calculate $p_{zz}$ achievable with carbon targets for initial beam energies $E_{\rm in}$ between 18.60 and 9.50\,MeV and $E_{\rm out}$ given by the areal target density. Carbon layers in a sandwich technique would enable $p_{zz}$ between -0.4 and +0.3., Comment: 25 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables

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2017

28. Phase locking the spin precession in a storage ring

Author

Hempelmann, N., Hejny, V., Pretz, J., Stephenson, E., Augustyniak, W., Bagdasarian, Z., Bai, M., Barion, L., Berz, M., Chekmenev, S., Ciullo, G., Dymov, S., Etzkorn, F. -J., Eversmann, D., Gaisser, M., Gebel, R., Grigoryev, K., Grzonka, D., Guidoboni, G., Hanraths, T., Heberling, D., Hetzel, J., Hinder, F., Kacharava, A., Kamerdzhiev, V., Keshelashvili, I., Koop, I., Kulikov, A., Lehrach, A., Lenisa, P., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Maanen, P., Macharashvili, G., Magiera, A., Mchedlishvili, D., Mey, S., Müller, F., Nass, A., Nikolaev, N. N., Pesce, A., Prasuhn, D., Rathmann, F., Rosenthal, M., Saleev, A., Schmidt, V., Semertzidis, Y., Shmakova, V., Silenko, A., Slim, J., Soltner, H., Stahl, A., Stassen, R., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Tagliente, G., Talman, R., Engblom, P. Thörngren, Trinkel, F., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., Valetov, E., Vassiliev, A., Weidemann, C., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Zuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract

This letter reports the successful use of feedback from a spin polarization measurement to the revolution frequency of a 0.97 GeV/$c$ bunched and polarized deuteron beam in the Cooler Synchrotron (COSY) storage ring in order to control both the precession rate ($\approx 121$ kHz) and the phase of the horizontal polarization component. Real time synchronization with a radio frequency (rf) solenoid made possible the rotation of the polarization out of the horizontal plane, yielding a demonstration of the feedback method to manipulate the polarization. In particular, the rotation rate shows a sinusoidal function of the horizontal polarization phase (relative to the rf solenoid), which was controlled to within a one standard deviation range of $\sigma = 0.21$ rad. The minimum possible adjustment was 3.7 mHz out of a revolution frequency of 753 kHz, which changes the precession rate by 26 mrad/s. Such a capability meets a requirement for the use of storage rings to look for an intrinsic electric dipole moment of charged particles.

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2017
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29. Spin tune mapping as a novel tool to probe the spin dynamics in storage rings

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Saleev, A., Nikolaev, N. N., Rathmann, F., Augustyniak, W., Bagdasarian, Z., Bai, M., Berz, M., Chekmenev, S., Ciullo, G., Dymov, S., Eversmann, D., Gaisser, M., Gebel, R., Grigoryev, K., Grzonka, D., Guidoboni, G., Heberling, D., Hempelmann, N., Hejny, V., Hetzel, J., Hinder, F., Kacharava, A., Kamerdzhiev, V., Keshelashvili, I., Koop, I., Kulikov, A., Lehrach, A., Lenisa, P., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Maanen, P., Macharashvili, G., Mchedlishvili, D., Magiera, A., Mey, S., Nass, A., Pesce, A., Prasuhn, D., Pretz, J., Rosenthal, M., Schmidt, V., Semertzidis, Y., Senichev, Y., Shmakova, V., Silenko, A., Slim, J., Stahl, A., Stassen, R., Stephenson, E., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Engblom, P. Thörngren, Tabidze, M., Tagliente, G., Talman, R., Trinkel, F., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., Valetov, E., Vassiliev, A., Weidemann, C., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., and Zuprański, P.

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Precision experiments, such as the search for electric dipole moments of charged particles using storage rings, demand for an understanding of the spin dynamics with unprecedented accuracy. The ultimate aim is to measure the electric dipole moments with a sensitivity up to 15 orders in magnitude better than the magnetic dipole moment of the stored particles. This formidable task requires an understanding of the background to the signal of the electric dipole from rotations of the spins in the spurious magnetic fields of a storage ring. One of the observables, especially sensitive to the imperfection magnetic fields in the ring is the angular orientation of stable spin axis. Up to now, the stable spin axis has never been determined experimentally, and in addition, the JEDI collaboration for the first time succeeded to quantify the background signals that stem from false rotations of the magnetic dipole moments in the horizontal and longitudinal imperfection magnetic fields of the storage ring. To this end, we developed a new method based on the spin tune response of a machine to artificially applied longitudinal magnetic fields. This novel technique, called \textit{spin tune mapping}, emerges as a very powerful tool to probe the spin dynamics in storage rings. The technique was experimentally tested in 2014 at the cooler synchrotron COSY, and for the first time, the angular orientation of the stable spin axis at two different locations in the ring has been determined to an unprecedented accuracy of better than $2.8\mu$rad., Comment: 32 pages, 15 figures, 7 tables

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2017
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30. Search for eta-mesic 4He in the dd->3He n pi0 and dd->3He p pi- reactions with the WASA-at-COSY facility

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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berlowski, M., Bhatt, H., Bondar, A., Buescher, 9 M., Calen, H., Ciepal, I., Clement, H., Czerwinski, E., Demmich, K., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Foehl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullstroem, C. -O., Heijkenskjoeld, L., Hejny, V., Huesken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kelkar, N. G., Kemmerling, G., Khatri, G., Khoukaz, A., Khreptak, O., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Klos, B., Krzemien, W., Kulessa, P., Kupsc, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Marianski, B., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Prasuhn, D., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Rundel, O., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Schaetti-Ozerianska, I., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Sitterberg, K., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Stroeher, H., Szczurek, A., Trzcinski, A., Varma, R., Wolke, M., Wronska, A., Wuestner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zielinski, M. J., Zlomanczuk, J., Zupranski, P., and Zurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The search for 4He-eta bound states was performed with the WASA-at-COSY facility via the measurement of the excitation function for the dd->3He n pi0 and dd->3He p pi- processes. The beam momentum was varied continuously between 2.127 GeV/c and 2.422 GeV/c, corresponding to the excess energy for the dd->4He eta reaction ranging from Q=-70 MeV to Q=30 MeV. The luminosity was determined based on the dd->3He n reaction and quasi-free proton-proton scattering via dd->pp n_spectator n_spectator reactions. The excitation functions determined independently for the measured reactions do not reveal a structure which could be interpreted as a narrow mesic nucleus. Therefore, the upper limits of the total cross sections for the bound state production and decay in dd->(4He-eta)_bound->3He n pi0 and dd->(4He-eta)_bound->3He p pi- processes were determined taking into account the isospin relation between both the channels considered. The results of the analysis depend on the assumptions of the N* momentum distribution in the anticipated mesic-4He. Assuming as in the previous works, that this is identical with the distribution of nucleons bound with 20 MeV in 4He, we determined that (for the mesic bound state width in the range from 5 MeV to 50 MeV) the upper limits at 90% confidence level are about 3 nb and about 6 nb for npi0 and ppi- channels, respectively. However, based on the recent theoretical findings of the N*(1535) momentum distribution in the N*-3He nucleus bound by 3.6 MeV, we find that the WASA-at-COSY detector acceptance decreases and hence the corresponding upper limits are 5 nb and 10 nb for npi0 and ppi- channels respectively., Comment: This article will be submitted to JHEP

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2016
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31. Measurement of the $\omega \to \pi^+ \pi^- \pi^0$ Dalitz plot distribution

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Collaboration, The WASA-at-COSY, Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. -O., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hüsken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khatri, G., Khoukaz, A., Khreptak, O., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Prasuhn, D., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Rundel, O., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Schätti-Ozerianska, I., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Sitterberg, K., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., Żurek, M., Kubis, B., and Leupold, S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Using the production reactions $pd\to {}^3\mbox{He}\,\omega$ and $pp\to pp\omega$, the Dalitz plot distribution for the $\omega \to \pi^+ \pi^- \pi^0$ decay is studied with the WASA detector at COSY, based on a combined data sample of $ (4.408\pm 0.042) \times 10^4$ events. The Dalitz plot density is parametrised by a product of the $P$-wave phase space and a polynomial expansion in the normalised polar Dalitz plot variables $Z$ and $\phi$. For the first time, a deviation from pure $P$-wave phase space is observed with a significance of $4.1\sigma$. The deviation is parametrised by a linear term $1+2\alpha Z$, with $\alpha$ determined to be $+0.147\pm0.036$, consistent with the expectations of $\rho$-meson-type final-state interactions of the $P$-wave pion pairs., Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures

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2016
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32. Coherent pion production in proton-deuteron collisions

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Dymov, S., Shmakova, V., Mchedlishvili, D., Azaryan, T., Barsov, S., Dzyuba, A., Engels, R., Gebel, R., Goslawski, P., Gou, B., Grigoryev, K., Hartmann, M., Kacharava, A., Komarov, V., Khoukaz, A., Kulessa, P., Kulikov, A., Kurbatov, V., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Macharashvili, G., Merzliakov, S., Mielke, M., Mikirtytchiants, S., Nioradze, M., Ohm, H., Papenbrock, M., Prasuhn, D., Rathmann, F., Serdyuk, V., Seyfarth, H., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Trusov, S., Tsirkov, D., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., Wilkin, C., and Wüstner, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Values of the proton analysing power in the $pd\to{}^{3}\textrm{He}\,\pi^0/^{3}\textrm{H}\,\pi^+$ reactions at 350-360~MeV per nucleon were obtained by using a polarised proton beam incident on a deuterium cluster-jet target and with a polarised deuteron beam incident on a target cell filled with polarised hydrogen. These results have a much larger angular coverage than existing data. First measurements are also presented of the deuteron vector analysing power and the deuteron-proton spin correlations. Data were also obtained on the deuteron-proton spin correlation and proton analysing power at small angles at 600~MeV per nucleon, though the angular coverage at this energy was much more restricted even when using a deuteron beam. By combining the extrapolated values of the spin correlations to the forward or backward directions with published measurements of the deuteron tensor analysing powers, the relative phases between the two non-vanishing amplitudes were evaluated., Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures

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2016
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33. Search for an Isospin I =3 Dibaryon

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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berlowski, M., Bhatt, H., Bondar, A., Buescher, M., Calen, H., Ciepa, I., Clement, H., Czerwinski, E., Demmich, K., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Foehl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullstroem, C. -O., Heijkenskjoeld, L., Hejny, V., Huesken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khatri, G., Khoukaz, A., Khreptak, O., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Klos, B., Krzemien, W., Kulessa, P., Kupsc, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Marianski, B., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Prasuhn, D., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pysniak, A., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Rundel, O., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Schaetti-Ozerianska, I., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Sitterberg, K., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Strassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Stroeher, H., Szczurek, A., Trzcinski, A., Varma, R., Wolke, M., Wronska, A., Wuestner, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zielinski, M. J., Zink, A., Zlomanczuk, J., Zupranski, P., and Zurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Various theoretical calculations based on QCD or hadronic interactions predict that in addition to the recently observed dibaryon resonance $d^*(2380)$ with $I(J^P) = 0(3^+)$ there should also exist a dibaryon resonance with mirrored quantum numbers $I(J^P) = 3(0^+)$. We report here on a search for such a $NN$-decoupled state in data on the $pp \to pp\pi^+\pi^+\pi^-\pi^-$ reaction. Since no clear-cut evidence has been found, we give upper limits for the production cross section of such a resonance in the mass range 2280 - 2500 MeV.

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2016
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34. Measurement of the $\vec{n}p \to d\pi^0\pi^0$ Reaction with Polarized Beam in the Region of the $d^*(2380)$ Resonance

Author

Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calen, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. -O., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hüsken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khatri, G., Khoukaz, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Kuzmin, A., Lawani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, . P., Mariański, B., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Prashun, D., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Rundel, O., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Schätti--Ozerianska, I., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Sitterberg, K., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Täschner, A., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Zink, A., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report on a high-statistics measurement of the most basic double pionic fusion reaction $\vec{n}p \to d\pi^0\pi^0$ over the energy region of the $d^*(2380)$ resonance by use of a polarized deuteron beam and observing the double fusion reaction in the quasifree scattering mode. The measurements were performed with the WASA detector setup at COSY. The data reveal substantial analyzing powers and confirm conclusions about the $d^*$ resonance obtained from unpolarized measurements. We also confirm the previous unpolarized data obtained under complementary kinematic conditions.

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2016
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35. Measurements of Branching Ratios for $\eta$ Decays into Charged Particles

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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Coderre, D., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. -O., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hüsken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khatri, G., Khoukaz, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Mikirtychiants, M., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Ozerianska, I., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Prasuhn, D., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Rundel, O., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Sitterberg, K., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Täschner, A., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wiedner, U., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Wurm, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Zink, A., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The WASA-at-COSY experiment has collected $3\times10^{7}$ events with $\eta$-mesons produced via the reaction $pd\rightarrow{^{3}\textrm{He}}\eta$ at $\textrm{T} = 1.0 \textrm{GeV}$. Using this data set, we evaluate the branching ratios of the decays $\eta\to\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\gamma$, $\eta\to e^{+}e^{-}\gamma$, $\eta\to\pi^{+}\pi^{-}e^{+}e^{-}$ and $\eta\to e^{+}e^{-}e^{+}e^{-}$. The branching ratios are normalized to the $\eta\rightarrow\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\pi^{0}$ decay. In addition an upper limit on a $CP$-violating asymmetry in $\eta\rightarrow \pi^{+}\pi^{-}e^{+}e^{-}$ is extracted.

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2015
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36. New method for a continuous determination of the spin tune in storage rings and implications for precision experiments

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Eversmann, D., Hejny, V., Hinder, F., Kacharava, A., Pretz, J., Rathmann, F., Rosenthal, M., Trinkel, F., Andrianov, S., Augustyniak, W., Bagdasarian, Z., Bai, M., Bernreuther, W., Bertelli, S., Berz, M., Bsaisou, J., Chekmenev, S., Chiladze, D., Ciullo, G., Contalbrigo, M., de Vries, J., Dymov, S., Engels, R., Esser, F. M., Felden, O., Gaisser, M., Gebel, R., Glückler, H., Goldenbaum, F., Grigoryev, K., Grzonka, D., Guidoboni, G., Hanhart, C., Heberling, D., Hempelmann, N., Hetzel, J., Hipple, R., Hölscher, D., Ivanov, A., Kamerdzhiev, V., Kamys, B., Keshelashvili, I., Khoukaz, A., Koop, I., Krause, H-J., Krewald, S., Kulikov, A., Lehrach, A., Lenisa, P., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Maanen, P., Macharashvili, G., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Makino, K., Marianski, B., Mchedlishvili, D., Meißner, Ulf-G., Mey, S., Nass, A., Natour, G., Nikolaev, N., Nioradze, M., Nogga, A., Nowakowski, K., Pesce, A., Prasuhn, D., Ritman, J., Rudy, Z., Saleev, A., Semertzidis, Y., Senichev, Y., Shmakova, V., Silenko, A., Slim, J., Soltner, H., Stahl, A., Stassen, R., Statera, M., Stephenson, E., Stockhorst, H., Straatmann, H., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Talman, R., Engblom, P. Thörngren, Trzcinski, A., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., Valetov, E., Vassiliev, A., Weidemann, C., Wilkin, C., Wirzba, A., Wronska, A., Wüstner, P., Zakrzewska, M., Zaplatin, E., Zupranski, P., and Zyuzin, D.

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

A new method to determine the spin tune is described and tested. In an ideal planar magnetic ring, the spin tune - defined as the number of spin precessions per turn - is given by $\nu_s = \gamma G$ (gamma is the Lorentz factor, $G$ the magnetic anomaly). For 970 MeV/c deuterons coherently precessing with a frequency of ~120 kHz in the Cooler Synchrotron COSY, the spin tune is deduced from the up-down asymmetry of deuteron carbon scattering. In a time interval of 2.6 s, the spin tune was determined with a precision of the order $10^{-8}$, and to $1 \cdot 10^{-10}$ for a continuous 100 s accelerator cycle. This renders the presented method a new precision tool for accelerator physics: controlling the spin motion of particles to high precision is mandatory, in particular, for the measurement of electric dipole moments of charged particles in a storage ring., Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures

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2015
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37. Analysing powers and spin correlations in deuteron-proton charge exchange at 726 MeV

Author

Dymov, S., Azaryan, T., Bagdasarian, Z., Barsov, S., Carbonell, J., Chiladze, D., Engels, R., Gebel, R., Grigoryev, K., Hartmann, M., Kacharava, A., Khoukaz, A., Komarov, V., Kulessa, P., Kulikov, A., Kurbatov, V., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Macharashvili, G., Mchedlishvili, D., Merzliakov, S., Mielke, M., Mikirtychyants, M., Mikirtychyants, S., Nioradze, M., Ohm, H., Prasuhn, D., Rathmann, F., Serdyuk, V., Seyfarth, H., Shmakova, V., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Trusov, S., Tsirkov, D., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., Weidemann, C., and Wilkin, C.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

The charge exchange of vector polarised deuterons on a polarised hydrogen target has been studied in a high statistics experiment at the COSY-ANKE facility at a deuteron beam energy of Td = 726 MeV. By selecting two fast protons at low relative energy E_{pp}, the measured analysing powers and spin correlations are sensitive to interference terms between specific neutron-proton charge-exchange amplitudes at a neutron kinetic energy of Tn ~ 1/2 Td =363 MeV. An impulse approximation calculation, which takes into account corrections due to the angular distribution in the diproton, describes reasonably the dependence of the data on both E_{pp} and the momentum transfer. This lends broad support to the current neutron-proton partial-wave solution that was used in the estimation.

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2015
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38. Measurement of the $np \to np\pi^0\pi^0$ Reaction in Search for the Recently Observed $d^*(2380)$ Resonance

Author

Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Coderre, D., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Doroshkevich, E., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goslawski, P., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. --O., Hauenstein, F., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Höistad, B., Hüsken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khoukaz, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Mikirtychiants, M., Morsch, H. --P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Ozerianska, I., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Podkopał, P., Prasuhn, D., Pricking, A., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Täschner, A., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wagner, G. J., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Wurm, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Zink, A., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Exclusive measurements of the quasi-free $np \to np\pi^0\pi^0$ reaction have been performed by means of $dp$ collisions at $T_d$ = 2.27 GeV using the WASA detector setup at COSY. Total and differential cross sections have been obtained covering the energy region $\sqrt s$ = (2.35 - 2.46) GeV, which includes the region of the ABC effect and its associated $d^*(2380)$ resonance. Adding the $d^*$ resonance amplitude to that for the conventional processes leads to a reasonable description of the data. The observed resonance effect in the total cross section is in agreement with the predictions of F\"aldt and Wilkin as well Albadajedo and Oset. The ABC effect, {\it i.e.} the low-mass enhancement in the $\pi^0\pi^0$-invariant mass spectrum, is found to be very modest - if present at all, which might pose a problem to some of its interpretations.

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2014
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39. ABC Effect and Resonance Structure in the Double-Pionic Fusion to $^3$He

Author

Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Coderre, D., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Doroshkevich, E., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goslawski, P., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. --O., Hauenstein, F., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Höistad, B., Hüsken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khoukaz, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Mikirtychiants, M., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Ozerianska, I., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Podkopał, P., Prasuhn, D., Pricking, A., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Täschner, A., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wagner, G. J., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Wurm, P., Yamamoto, A., Yurev, L., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Zink, A., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Exclusive and kinematically complete measurements of the double pionic fusion to $^3$He have been performed in the energy region of the so-called ABC effect, which denotes a pronounced low-mass enhancement in the $\pi\pi$-invariant mass spectrum. The experiments were carried out with the WASA detector setup at COSY. Similar to the observations in the basic $pn \to d \pi^0\pi^0$ reaction and in the $dd \to ^4$He$\pi^0\pi^0$ reaction, the data reveal a correlation between the ABC effect and a resonance-like energy dependence in the total cross section. Differential cross sections are well described by the hypothesis of $d^*$ resonance formation during the reaction process in addition to the conventional $t$-channel $\Delta\Delta$ mechanism. The deduced $d^*$ resonance width can be understood from collision broadening due to Fermi motion of the nucleons in initial and final nuclei.

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2014
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40. Neutron-Proton Scattering in the Context of the $d^*$(2380) Resonance

Author

Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Coderre, D., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Doroshkevich, E., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goslawski, P., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. --O., Hauenstein, F., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hodana, M., Höistad, B., Hüsken, N., Jany, A., Jany, B. R., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khoukaz, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krapp, M., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Mikirtychiants, M., Morsch, H. --P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Ozerianska, I., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Podkopał, P., Prasuhn, D., Pricking, A., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Redmer, C. F., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Täschner, A., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wagner, G. J., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Wurm, P., Yamamoto, A., Yurev, L., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Zink, A., Złomańczuk, J., {Ż}uprański, P., {Ż}urek, M., Workman, R. L., Briscoe, W. J., and Strakovsky, I. I.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

New data on quasifree polarized neutron-proton scattering, in the region of the recently observed $d^*$ resonance structure, have been obtained by exclusive and kinematically complete high-statistics measurements with WASA at COSY. This paper details the determination of the beam polarization, checks of the quasifree character of the scattering process, on all obtained $A_y$ angular distributions and on the new partial-wave analysis, which includes the new data producing a resonance pole in the $^3D_3$-$^3G_3$ coupled partial waves at ($2380\pm10 - i40\pm5$) MeV -- in accordance with the $d^*$ dibaryon resonance hypothesis. The effect of the new partial-wave solution on the description of total and differential cross section data as well as specific combinations of spin-correlation and spin-transfer observables available from COSY-ANKE measurements at $T_d$ = 2.27 GeV is discussed.

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2014
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41. Study of the $\vec{p}d \to n\{pp\}_{s}$ charge-exchange reaction using a polarised deuterium target

Author

Gou, B., Mchedlishvili, D., Bagdasarian, Z., Barsov, S., Chiladze, D., Dymov, S., Engels, R., Gaisser, M., Gebel, R., Grigoryev, K., Hartmann, M., Kacharava, A., Khoukaz, A., Kulessa, P., Kulikov, A., Lehrach, A., Li, Z., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Macharashvili, G., Merzliakov, S., Mielke, M., Mikirtychyants, M., Mikirtychyants, S., Nioradze, M., Ohm, H., Prasuhn, D., Rathmann, F., Serdyuk, V., Seyfarth, H., Shmakova, V., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Trusov, S., Tsirkov, D., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., Wang, T., Weidemann, C., Wilkin, C., and Yuan, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

The vector and tensor analysing powers, $A_y$ and $A_{yy}$, of the $\vec{p}d \to n\{pp\}_{s}$ charge-exchange reaction have been measured at a beam energy of 600 MeV at the COSY-ANKE facility by using an unpolarised proton beam incident on an internal storage cell target filled with polarised deuterium gas. The low energy recoiling protons were measured in a pair of silicon tracking telescopes placed on either side of the target. Putting a cut of 3 MeV on the diproton excitation energy ensured that the two protons were dominantly in the $^{1}S_{0}$ state, here denoted by $\{pp\}_{s}$. The polarisation of the deuterium gas was established through measurements in parallel of proton-deuteron elastic scattering. By analysing events where both protons entered the same telescope, the charge-exchange reaction was measured for momentum transfers $q\geq 160$ MeV/$c$. These data provide a good continuation of the earlier results at $q\leq 140$ MeV/$c$ obtained with a polarised deuteron beam. They are also consistent with impulse approximation predictions with little sign evident for any modifications due to multiple scatterings.

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2014
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42. Charge Symmetry Breaking in dd->4He{\pi}0 with WASA-at-COSY

Author

Collaboration, WASA-at-COSY, Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Coderre, D., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Doroshkevich, E., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goslawski, P., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. -O., Hanhart, C., Hauenstein, F., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Höistad, B., Hüsken, N., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khoukaz, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Mikirtychiants, M., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Ozerianska, I., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Podkopał, P., Prasuhn, D., Pricking, A., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Redmer, C. F., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Täschner, A., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Wurm, P., Yamamoto, A., Yurev, L., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Zink, A., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Charge symmetry breaking (CSB) observables are a suitable experimental tool to examine effects induced by quark masses on the nuclear level. Previous high precision data from TRIUMF and IUCF are currently used to develop a consistent description of CSB within the framework of chiral perturbation theory. In this work the experimental studies on the reaction dd->4He{\pi}0 have been extended towards higher excess energies in order to provide information on the contribution of p-waves in the final state. For this, an exclusive measurement has been carried out at a beam momentum of p=1.2 GeV/c using the WASA-at-COSY facility. The total cross section amounts to sigma(tot) = (118 +- 18(stat) +- 13(sys) +- 8(ext)) pb and first data on the differential cross section are consistent with s-wave pion production., Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures

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2014
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43. Measurement of the $\eta\to\pi^+\pi^-\pi^0$ Dalitz plot distribution

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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Coderre, D., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Doroshkevich, E., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goslawski, P., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. -O., Hauenstein, F., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hodana, M., Höistad, B., Hüsken, N., Jany, A., Jany, B. R., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khoukaz, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Martemyanov, B. V., Meißner, U. -G., Mikirtychiants, M., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Ozerianska, I., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Podkopał, P., Prasuhn, D., Pricking, A., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Redmer, C. F., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shwartz, B., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Täschner, A., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Wurm, P., Yamamoto, A., Yuan, X., Yurev, L., Zabierowski, J., Zheng, C., Zieliński, M. J., Zink, A., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Dalitz plot distribution of the $\eta\to\pi^+\pi^-\pi^0$ decay is determined using a data sample of $1.2\cdot 10^7$ $\eta$ mesons from $pd\to ^3\textrm{He}\eta$ reaction at 1 GeV collected by the WASA detector at COSY., Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures

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2014
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44. Cross section ratio and angular distributions of the reaction p + d -> 3He + eta at 48.8 MeV and 59.8 MeV excess energy

Author

Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Coderre, D., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Doroshkevich, E., Engels, R., Erven, A., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goslawski, P., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. -O., Hauenstein, F., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hodana, M., Höistad, B., Hüsken, N., Jany, A., Jany, B. R., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khoukaz, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Kłos, B., Kleines, H., Krapp, M., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Mikirtychiants, M., Morsch, H. --P., Moskal, P., Ohm, H., Ozerianska, I., Passfeld, A., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Podkopał, P., Prasuhn, D., Pricking, A., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Redmer, C. F., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Täschner, A., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wagner, G. J., Węglorz, W., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Wurm, P., Yamamoto, A., Yurev, L., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Zink, A., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We present new data for angular distributions and on the cross section ratio of the p + d -> 3He + eta reaction at excess energies of Q = 48.8 MeV and Q = 59.8 MeV. The data have been obtained at the WASA-at-COSY experiment (Forschungszentrum J\"ulich) using a proton beam and a deuterium pellet target. While the shape of obtained angular distributions show only a slow variation with the energy, the new results indicate a distinct and unexpected total cross section fluctuation between Q = 20 MeV and Q = 60 MeV, which might indicate the variation of the production mechanism within this energy interval., Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures

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2014
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45. First measurements of spin correlations in the np -> d pi^0 reaction

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Shmakova, V., Mchedlishvili, D., Dymov, S., Azaryan, T., Barsov, S., Chiladze, D., Engels, R., Gebel, R., Gou, B., Grigoryev, K., Hartmann, M., Kacharava, A., Komarov, V., Kulessa, P., Kulikov, A., Kurbatov, V., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Macharashvili, G., Merzliakov, S., Mikirtytchiants, M., Mikirtytchiants, S., Nioradze, M., Ohm, H., Prasuhn, D., Rathmann, F., Serdyuk, V., Seyfarth, H., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Trusov, S., Tsirkov, D., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., and Wilkin, C.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The transverse spin correlations Axx and Ayy in the np-> d pi^0 reaction have been measured for the first time in quasi-free kinematics at the COSY-ANKE facility using a polarised deuteron beam incident on a polarised hydrogen cell target. The results obtained for neutron energies close to 353 MeV and 600 MeV are in good agreement with the partial wave analysis of data on the isospin-related pp-> d pi^+ reaction, though the present results cover also the small-angle region, which was largely absent from these data.

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2013

46. Measurement of the $pn \to pp\pi^0\pi^-$ Reaction in Search for the Recently Observed Resonance Structure in $d\pi^0\pi^0$ and $d\pi^+\pi^-$ systems

Author

Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Coderre, D., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Doroshkevich, E., Engels, R., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goslawski, P., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. --O., Hauenstein, F., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hinterberger, F., Hodana, M., Höistad, B., Jany, A., Jany, B. R., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khoukaz, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Klaja, J., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krapp, M., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Li, L., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Mikirtychiants, M., Morsch, H. --P., Moskal, P., Nandi, B. K., Ohm, H., Ozerianska, I., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Pluciński, P., Podkopał, P., Prasuhn, D., Pricking, A., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Redmer, C. F., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Sawant, S., Schmidt, A., Schadmand, S., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shah, N., Siemaszko, M., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Tolba, T., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wagner, G. J., Węglorz, W., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Wurm, P., Yamamoto, A., Yuan, X., Zabierowski, J., Zheng, C., Zieliński, M. J., Zipper, W., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Exclusive measurements of the quasi-free $pn \to pp\pi^0\pi^-$ reaction have been performed by means of $pd$ collisions at $T_p$ = 1.2 GeV using the WASA detector setup at COSY. Total and differential cross sections have been obtained covering the energy region $\sqrt s$ = (2.35 - 2.46) GeV, which includes the region of the ABC effect and its associated resonance structure. No ABC effect, {\it i.e.} low-mass enhancement is found in the $\pi^0\pi^-$-invariant mass spectrum -- in agreement with the constraint from Bose statistics that the isovector pion pair can not be in relative s-wave. At the upper end of the covered energy region $t$-channel processes for Roper, $\Delta(1600)$ and $\Delta\Delta$ excitations provide a reasonable description of the data, but at low energies the measured cross sections are much larger than predicted by such processes. Adding a resonance amplitude for the resonance at $m$=~2.37 GeV with $\Gamma$ =~70 MeV and $I(J^P)=~0(3^+)$ observed recently in $pn \to d\pi^0\pi^0$ and $pn \to d\pi^+\pi^-$ reactions leads to an agreement with the data also at low energies.

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2013
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47. Excitation of the Delta(1232) isobar in deuteron charge exchange on hydrogen at 1.6, 1.8, and 2.3 GeV

Author

Mchedlishvili, D., Barsov, S., Carbonell, J., Chiladze, D., Dymov, S., Dzyuba, A., Engels, R., Gebel, R., Glagolev, V., Grigoryev, K., Goslawski, P., Hartmann, M., Imambekov, O., Kacharava, A., Kamerdzhiev, V., Keshelashvili, I., Khoukaz, A., Komarov, V., Kulessa, P., Kulikov, A., Lehrach, A., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Macharashvili, G., Maier, R., Merzliakov, S., Mielke, M., Mikirtychyants, M., Mikirtychyants, S., Nioradze, M., Ohm, H., Papenbrock, M., Prasuhn, D., Rathmann, F., Serdyuk, V., Seyfarth, H., Stein, H. J., Steffens, E., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Trusov, S., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., and Wilkin, C.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

The charge-exchange break-up of polarised deuterons pol{d}p -> {pp}n, where the final {pp} diproton system has a very low excitation energy and hence is mainly in the 1S0 state, is a powerful tool to probe the spin-flip terms in the proton-neutron charge-exchange scattering. Recent measurements with the ANKE spectrometer at the COSY storage ring at 1.6, 1.8, and 2.27 GeV have extended these studies into the pion-production regime in order to investigate the mechanism for the excitation of the Delta(1232) isobar in the pol{d}p -> {pp}X reaction. Values of the differential cross section and two deuteron tensor analysing powers, A_{xx} and A_{yy}, have been extracted in terms of the momentum transfer to the diproton or the invariant mass Mx of the unobserved system X. The unpolarised cross section in the high Mx region is well described in a model that includes only direct excitation of the Delta isobar through undistorted one pion exchange. However, the cross section is grossly underestimated for low Mx, even when Delta excitation in the projectile deuteron is included in the calculation. Furthermore, direct Delta production through one pion exchange only reproduces the angular dependence of the difference between the two tensor analysing powers., Comment: 7 pages with 6 figures

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2013
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48. Investigation of the dd -> 3He n \pi 0 reaction with the FZ J\'ulich WASA-at-COSY facility

Author

Collaboration, WASA-at-COSY, Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Coderre, D., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Doroshkevich, E., Engels, R., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goslawski, P., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. --O., Hanhart, C., Hauenstein, F., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hinterberger, F., Hodana, M., Höistad, B., Jany, A., Jany, B. R., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khoukaz, A., Kirillov, D. A., Kistryn, S., Klaja, J., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krapp, M., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Li, L., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Mikirtychiants, M., Morsch, H. --P., Moskal, P., Nandi, B. K., Ohm, H., Ozerianska, I., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N. M., Pluciński, P., Podkopał, P., Prasuhn, D., Pricking, A., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Redmer, C. F., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Sawant, S., Schmidt, A., Schadmand, S., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shah, N., Siemaszko, M., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Tolba, T., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wagner, G. J., Węglorz, W., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Wurm, P., Yamamoto, A., Yuan, X., Zabierowski, J., Zheng, C., Zieliński, M. J., Zipper, W., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

An exclusive measurement of the dd -> 3He n \pi 0 reaction was carried at a beam momentum of p = 1.2 GeV/c using the WASA-at-COSY facility. For the first time data on the total cross section as well as differential distributions were obtained. The data are described with a phenomenological approach based on a combination of a quasi-free model and a partial wave expansion for three-body reaction. The total cross section is found to be \sigma(tot) = (2.89 +- 0.01(stat) +- 0.06(sys) +- 0.29(norm)) \mu b. The contribution of the quasi-free processes (with the neutron being target or beam spectator) accounts for 38% of the total cross section and dominates the differential distributions in specific regions of the phase space. The remaining part of the cross section can be described within a partial wave decomposition indicating the significance of p-wave contributions in the final state., Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures

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2013
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49. Measurement of spin observables in the quasi-free np-> {pp}_s pi- reaction at 353 MeV

Author

Dymov, S., Shmakova, V., Azaryan, T., Barsov, S., Baru, V., Benati, P., Chiladze, D., Dzyuba, A., Engels, R., Gaisser, M., Gebel, R., Grigoryev, K., Goslawski, P., Guidoboni, G., Hartmann, M., Kacharava, A., Kamerdzhiev, V., Khoukaz, A., Komarov, V., Kulessa, P., Kulikov, A., Kurbatov, V., Lehrach, A., Lenisa, P., Lensky, V., Lomidze, N., Lorentz, B., Macharashvili, G., Maier, R., Mchedlishvili, D., Merzliakov, S., Mielke, M., Mikirtychyants, M., Mikirtytchiants, S., Nioradze, M., Oellers, D., Ohm, H., Polyanskiy, A., Papenbrock, M., Prasuhn, D., Rathmann, F., Serdyuk, V., Seyfarth, H., Steffens, E., Stein, H. J., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Tabidze, M., Trusov, S., Tsirkov, D., Uzikov, Yu., Valdau, Yu., Weidemann, Ch., Wilkin, C., Wüstner, P., Ye, Q. J., and Zhabitsky, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

The transverse spin correlations A_{x,x} and A_{y,y} have been measured in the pol{d} pol{p} -> p_spec {pp}_s pi- reaction at COSY-ANKE at 353 MeV per nucleon. Here {pp}_s denotes a proton-proton pair with low excitation energy, which is dominantly in the 1S0 state. By measuring three protons in the final state it was possible to extract events where there was a spectator proton p_spec so that the reaction could be interpreted in terms of quasi-free pol{n} pol{p} -> {pp}_s pi-. The proton analyzing power in this reaction was also deduced from this data set by averaging over the polarization of the deuteron beam. The values of A_y^p were shown to be consistent with a refined analysis of our earlier results obtained with a polarized proton incident on a deuterium target. Taking these data in combination with our earlier measurements of the differential cross sections and analyzing powers in the pol{p} p -> {pp}_s pi^0 reaction, a more robust partial wave decomposition was achieved. Three different acceptable solutions were found and the only way of resolving this ambiguity without further theoretical input would be through a measurement of the mixed spin-correlation parameter A_{x,z}.

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2013
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50. Search for a dark photon in the $\pi^0 \to e^+e^-\gamma$ decay

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Collaboration, WASA-at-COSY, Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Bardan, W., Bashkanov, M., Bergmann, F. S., Berłowski, M., Bhatt, H., Bondar, A., Büscher, M., Calén, H., Ciepał, I., Clement, H., Coderre, D., Czerwiński, E., Demmich, K., Doroshkevich, E., Engels, R., Erven, W., Eyrich, W., Fedorets, P., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, F., Goslawski, P., Goswami, A., Grigoryev, K., Gullström, C. -O., Hauenstein, F., Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, V., Hinterberger, F., Hodana, M., Höistad, B., Jany, A., Jany, B. R., Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, G., Khan, F. A., Khoukaz, A., Kistryn, S., Klaja, J., Kleines, H., Kłos, B., Krapp, M., Krzemień, W., Kulessa, P., Kupść, A., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, D., Li, L., Lorentz, B., Magiera, A., Maier, R., Marciniewski, P., Mariański, B., Meißner, U. -G., Mikirtychiants, M., Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, P., Nandi, B. K., Ohm, H., Ozerianska, I., del Rio, E. Perez, Piskunov, N., Pluciński, P., Podkopał, P., Prasuhn, D., Pricking, A., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Redmer, C. F., Ritman, J., Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Sawant, S., Schadmand, S., Schmidt, A., Sefzick, T., Serdyuk, V., Shah, N., Shwartz, B., Siemaszko, M., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skurzok, M., Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, R., Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, G., Stockhorst, H., Ströher, H., Szczurek, A., Tolba, T., Trzciński, A., Varma, R., Wagner, G. J., Wȩglorz, W., Wirzba, A., Wolke, M., Wrońska, A., Wüstner, P., Wurm, P., Yamamoto, A., Zabierowski, J., Zieliński, M. J., Zipper, W., Złomańczuk, J., Żuprański, P., and Żurek, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The presently world largest data sample of pi0 --> gamma e+e- decays containing nearly 5E5 events was collected using the WASA detector at COSY. A search for a dark photon U produced in the pi0 --> gamma U --> gamma e+e- decay from the pp-->pp\pi^0 reaction was carried out. An upper limit on the square of the U-gamma mixing strength parameter epsilon^2 of 5e-6 at 90% CL was obtained for the mass range 20 MeV

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2013
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