1. Determination of $\pi\pi$ scattering lengths from measurement of $\pi^+\pi^-$ atom lifetime
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Adeva, B., Afanasyev, L., Benayoun, M., Benelli, A., Berka, Z., Brekhovskikh, V., Caragheorgheopol, G., Cechak, T., Chiba, M., Chliapnikov, P. V., Ciocarlan, C., Constantinescu, S., Costantini, S., Curceanu, C., Doskarova, P., Dreossi, D., Drijard, D., Dudarev, A., Ferro-Luzzi, M., Pazos, J. L. Fungueiriño, Torreira, M. Gallas, Gerndt, J., Gianotti, P., Goldin, D., Gomez, F., Gorin, A., Gorchakov, O., Guaraldo, C., Gugiu, M., Hansroul, M., Hons, Z., Hosek, R., Iliescu, M., Karpukhin, V., Kluson, J., Kobayashi, M., Kokkas, P., Komarov, V., Kruglov, V., Kruglova, L., Kulikov, A., Kuptsov, A., Kuroda, K. I., Lamberto, A., Lanaro, A., Lapshin, V., Lednicky, R., Leruste, P., Sandri, P. Levi, Aguera, A. Lopez, Lucherini, V., Maki, T., Manuilov, I., Marin, J., Narjoux, J. L., Nemenov, L., Nikitin, M., Pardo, T. Nunez, Okada, K., Olchevskii, V., Pazos, A., Pentia, M., Penzo, A., Perreau, J. M., Plo, M., Ponta, T., Rappazzo, G. F., Riazantsev, A., Rodriguez, J. M., Fernandez, A. Rodriguez, Vidal, A. Romero, Ronjin, V. M., Rykalin, V., Saborido, J., Santamarina, C., Schacher, J., Schuetz, C., Sidorov, A., Smolik, J., Takeutchi, F., Tarasov, A., Tauscher, L., Tobar, M. J., Trojek, T., Trusov, S., Utkin, V., Doce, O. Vázquez, Vlachos, S., Voskresenskaya, O., Vrba, T., Willmott, C., Yazkov, V., Yoshimura, Y., Zhabitsky, M., and Zrelov, P.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology - Abstract
The DIRAC experiment at CERN has achieved a sizeable production of $\pi^+\pi^-$ atoms and has significantly improved the precision on its lifetime determination. From a sample of 21227 atomic pairs, a 4% measurement of the S-wave $\pi\pi$ scattering length difference $|a_0-a_2| = (.0.2533^{+0.0080}_{-0.0078}|_\mathrm{stat}.{}^{+0.0078}_{-0.0073}|_\mathrm{syst})M_{\pi^+}^{-1}$ has been attained, providing an important test of Chiral Perturbation Theory., Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures
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- 2011
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