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2003
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Eta physics at threshold
Eta physics at threshold
The production of eta- and eta'-mesons in elementary nucleon-nucleon collisions has been investigated at the synchrotrons CELSIUS, COSY and SATURNE. The high-quality proton beam with low emittance and small momentum spread permits to study the creation of these mesons very close to the kinemati...
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Personal Name(s): | Moskal, P. |
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Contributing Institute: |
Institut 1 (Experimentelle Kernphysik I); IKP-E-I |
Published in: | The @European physical journal / A, 18 (2003) S. 335 - 338 |
Imprint: |
Berlin
Springer
2003
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Physical Description: |
335 - 338 |
DOI: |
10.1140/epja/i2002-10231-5 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Physik der Hadronen |
Series Title: |
European Physical Journal A
18 |
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Please use the identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/10712 in citations.
The production of eta- and eta'-mesons in elementary nucleon-nucleon collisions has been investigated at the synchrotrons CELSIUS, COSY and SATURNE. The high-quality proton beam with low emittance and small momentum spread permits to study the creation of these mesons very close to the kinematical threshold, where --due to the rapid growth of the phase space volume-- the total cross-section increases by orders of magnitude over a few MeV range of the excess energy. The magnitude and energy dependence of the total cross-section as well as the occupation distribution of the phase space serve as observables for investigating the mechanisms underlying the production processes and the interaction of mesons with nucleons. The precise data on the eta and eta' creation via the pp --> ppeta(eta') reactions allowed to settle the general features of the eta- and eta'-meson production and revealed the sensitivity of the mentioned observables to the nucleon-nucleon-meson final-state interaction. The particular production properties, like for example, the determination of the dominating exchange processes which lead to the excitation of the S-11 nucleon isobar in the case of eta creation, must be established by confrontation with other observables. The present status of this investigation with an emphasis on the results of the COSY-11 Collaboration is briefly presented. The available data are interpreted in view of the production mechanism and the meson-nucleon interaction. |