Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2011-07-21
Eur.Phys.J.A47:93,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
10.1140/epja/i2011-11093-4
Isospin violating hadronic decays of the \eta and \eta' mesons into 3\pi mesons are driven by a term in the QCD Lagrangian proportional to the mass difference of the d and u quarks. The source giving large yield of the mesons for such decay studies are pp interactions close to the respective kinematical thresholds. The most important physics background for \eta,\eta'\to\pi\pi\pi is coming from direct three pion production reactions. In case of the \eta meson the background for the decays is relatively low (approx 10%). The purpose of this article is to provide an estimate of the direct pion production background for the \eta'\to 3\pi decays. Using the inclusive data from COSY-11 experiment we have extracted differential cross section for the pp\to pp-multipion production reactions with the invariant mass of the pions equal to the \eta' meson mass and estimated an upper limit for the signal to background ratio for studies of the \eta'\to\pi^+\pi^-\pi^0 decay.
Kupść Andrzej
Moskal Pawel
Zielinski Marcin J.
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