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Determination of the quadratic slope parameter in eta-->3pi(0) decay.

Authors :
Tippens WB
Prakhov S
Allgower CE
Bekrenev V
Berger E
Briscoe WJ
Clajus M
Comfort JR
Craig K
Efendiev A
Grosnick D
Holstein BR
Huber GM
Isenhower D
Knecht N
Koetke D
Koulbardis A
Kozlenko N
Kruglov S
Lolos GJ
Lopatin I
Manley DM
Marusić A
Manweiler R
McDonald S
Nefkens BM
Olmsted J
Papandreou Z
Phaisangittisakul N
Price JW
Pulver M
Ramirez AF
Sadler ME
Shafi A
Spinka H
Stanislaus S
Starostin A
Staudenmaier HM
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2001 Nov 05; Vol. 87 (19), pp. 192001. Date of Electronic Publication: 2001 Oct 22.
Publication Year :
2001

Abstract

We have determined the quadratic slope parameter alpha for eta-->3pi(0) to be alpha = -0.031(4) from a 99% pure sample of 10(6)eta-->3pi(0) decays produced in the reaction pi(-)p-->n(eta) close to the eta threshold using the Crystal Ball detector at the AGS. The result is four times more precise than the present world data and disagrees with current chiral perturbation theory calculations by about four standard deviations.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0031-9007
Volume :
87
Issue :
19
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
11690403
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.192001