I. Koch

The WASA Detector Facility at CELSIUS

The WASA 4 pi multidetector system, aimed at investigating light meson production in light ion collisions and eta meson rare decays at the CELSIUS storage ring in Uppsala is presented. A unique fea ...

Two-pion production in proton-proton collisions ― experimental total cross sections and their isospin decomposition

The two-pion production in pp-collisions has been investigated at CELSIUS in exclusive measurements from threshold up to T-P = 1.36 GeV. Total and differential Cross sections have been obtained for ...

Measurement of eta meson decays into lepton-antilepton pairs

A search for rare lepton decays of the η meson was performed using the WASA detector at CELSIUS. Two candidates for double Dalitz decay η→e+e-e+e- events are reported with a background of 1.3±0.2 e ...

Delta Delta excitation in proton-proton induced pi(0)pi(0) production

Exclusive measurements of the pp -> pp pi(0)pi(0) reaction have been performed at CELSIUS/WASA at energies from threshold up to T-p = 1.3 GeV. Total and differential cross sections have been obt ...

Exclusive measurements of pd→He3ππ: The ABC effect revisited

Abstract Exclusive measurements of the reactions p d → He 3 π + π − and p d → He 3 π 0 π 0 have been carried out at T p = 0.893 GeV at the CELSIUS storage ring using the WASA detector. The π + π − channel evidences a pronounced enhancement at low invariant ππ masses—as anticipated from previous inclusive measurements of the ABC effect. This enhancement is seen to be even much larger in the isoscalar π 0 π 0 channel. The differential distributions prove this enhancement to be of scalar–isoscalar nature. ΔΔ calculations give a good description of the data, if a boundstate condition is imposed for the intermediate ΔΔ system.

Measurement of the slope parameter for the η → 3π0 decay in the pp → ppη reaction

The CELSIUS-WASA setup is used to measure the 3π0 decay of η mesons produced in pp interactions with beam kinetic energies of 1.36 and 1.45 GeV. The efficiency-corrected Dalitz plot and density distributions for this decay are shown, together with a fit of the quadratic slope parameter α yielding α = −0.026 ± 0.010(stat) ± 0.010(syst). This value is compared to recent experimental results and theoretical predictions.

Spectator tagging in quasi-free proton–neutron interactions in deuterium using an internal cluster-jet target at a storage ring

Abstract Low-energy spectator protons (p s ) from quasi-free proton–neutron interactions on deuterium have been measured for the pd→dπ 0 p s and pd→pnπ 0 p s reactions at the CELSIUS storage ring of the The Svedberg Laboratory. The experiment used 320 MeV protons incident on a deuterium cluster-jet target. The spectator protons were detected inside the scattering chamber using a silicon detector system which is compatible with a high vacuum. The low target density allows the spectator proton emerge without undergoing significant secondary scattering. Its measurement is therefore a useful tag upon such reactions, allowing cross-sections for quasi-free reactions to be deduced at well-defined centre-of-mass energies. The comparison with the simulation for the pd→dπ 0 p s reaction shows that the energy dependence of the pn→dπ 0 cross-section can be extracted near the threshold. The method greatly improves the experimental resolution achievable in quasi-free p–n reaction studies.

Single- and double-pion production in nucleon collisions on the nucleon and on nuclei—the ABC effect and its origin in a dibaryonic resonance

Abstract The ABC effect–an intriguing low-mass enhancement in the π π invariant mass spectrum–is known from inclusive measurements of two-pion production in nuclear fusion reactions. First exclusive measurements carried out at CELSIUS-WASA for the fusion reactions leading to d or 3 He reveal this effect to be a σ -channel phenomenon associated with the formation of a Δ Δ system in the intermediate state and combined with a resonance-like behavior in the total cross-section. Together with the observation that the differential distributions do not change in shape over the resonance region the features fulfill the criteria of an isoscalar s-channel resonance in p n and N N π π systems, if the two emitted nucleons are bound. It obviously is robust enough to survive in nuclei as a dibaryonic resonance configuration. In this context also the phenomenon of N Δ resonances is reexamined.

The pp→ppπππ reaction channels in the threshold region

The cross section for direct neutral and charged three pion production in pp interactions was measured at excess energies in the range 160–216 MeV. That comprises the first measurement of the pp→ppπ0π0π0 reaction and the direct comparison with the pp→ppπ+π−π0 process. The experiment was performed above the η meson production threshold and the cross section could be directly normalized to the cross section of the pp→ppη reaction, with the η decaying into 3 pions. Since the same final states are selected, the measurement has a low systematical error. The measured cross section ratio σ(pp→ppπ+π−π0)/σ(pp→ppπ0π0π0) is compared to predictions of dominance of different isobars in the intermediate state.

Measurement of the η→π+π−e+e− decay branching ratio

The reaction at threshold was used to provide a clean source of η mesons for decay studies with the WASA detector at CELSIUS. The branching ratio of the decay η→π+π−e+e− is measured to be (4.3±1.3 ...