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Determination of the quadratic slope parameter in eta -> 3 pi(0) decay
Physical Review Letters (2001)
  • WB Tippens
  • S Prakhov
  • CE Allgower
  • V Bekrenev
  • E Berger
  • WJ Briscoe
  • M Clajus
  • JR Comfort
  • K Craig
  • A Efendiev
  • D Grosnick
  • BR Holstein, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • GM Huber
  • D Isenhower
  • N Knecht
  • D Koetke
  • A Koulbardis
  • N Kozlenko
  • S Kruglov
  • GJ Lolos
  • I Lopatin
  • DM Manley
  • A Marusic
  • R Manweiler
  • S McDonald
  • BMK Nefkens
  • J Olmsted
  • Z Papandreou
  • N Phaisangittisakul
  • JW Price
  • M Pulver
  • AF Ramirez
  • ME Sadler
  • A Shafi
  • H Spinka
  • S Stanislaus
  • A Starostin
  • HM Staudenmaier
Abstract
We have determined the quadratic slope parameter α for η→3π0 to be α = -0.031(4) from a 99% pure sample of 106η→3π0 decays produced in the reaction π-p→nη close to the η 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.
Publication Date
2001
Publisher Statement
The published version is located at http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.192001
Citation Information
WB Tippens, S Prakhov, CE Allgower, V Bekrenev, et al.. "Determination of the quadratic slope parameter in eta -> 3 pi(0) decay" Physical Review Letters Vol. 87 Iss. 19 (2001)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/barry_holstein/190/