The production of eta mesons has been measured in the proton-proton interaction close to the reaction threshold using the COSY-11 internal facility at the cooler synchrotron COSY. Total cross sections were determined for eight different excess energies in the range from 0.5 MeV to 5.4 MeV. The energy dependence of the total cross section is well described by the available phase-space volume weighted by FSI factors for the proton-proton and proton-eta pairs.
The total cross sections as a function of beam momentum and excess energy with statistical errors. The uncertainty on the beam momentum and excess energy are +- 0.00080 GeV and +- 0.28 MeV respectively.
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