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Journal Article | FZJ-2012-00573 |
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2012
North-Holland Publ.
Amsterdam
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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/13287 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.027
Abstract: An exclusive measurement of the decay eta --> pi+ pi- gamma has been performed at the WASA facility at COSY. The eta mesons were produced in the fusion reaction pd --> 3He X at a proton beam momentum of 1.7 GeV/c. Efficiency corrected differential distributions have been extracted based on 13340\pm140 events after background subtraction. The measured pion angular distribution is consistent with a relative p-wave of the two-pion system, whereas the measured photon energy spectrum was found at variance with the simplest gauge invariant matrix element of eta --> pi+ pi- gamma. A parameterization of the data can be achieved by the additional inclusion of the empirical pion vector form factor multiplied by a first-order polynomial in the squared invariant mass of the pi+ pi- system.
Keyword(s): eta: radiative decay ; pi: angular distribution ; photon: energy spectrum ; form factor: vector ; invariance: gauge ; beam: momentum ; p deuteron: fusion ; Juelich COSY PS ; mass spectrum: (pi+ pi- photon) ; eta: hadroproduction ; experimental results ; eta --> pi+ pi- photon ; p deuteron --> helium eta ; 1.7 GeV/c
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