Mechanism of the close-to-threshold production of the eta meson.

Czyzykiewicz, R. ; Moskal, P. ; Adam, H.-H. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 98 (2007) 122003, 2007.
Inspire Record 731185 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.41775

Measurements of the analysing power for the p(pol)p --> ppeta reaction have been performed in the close-to-threshold energy region at beam momenta of p_{beam}=2.010 and 2.085 GeV/c, corresponding to excess energies of Q=10 and 36 MeV, respectively. The determined analysing power is essentially consistent with zero implying that the eta meson is produced predominantly in the s-wave at both excess energies. The angular dependence of the analysing power, combined with the hitherto determined isospin dependence of the total cross section for the eta meson production in nucleon-nucleon collisions, reveal a statistically significant indication that the excitation of the nucleon to the S_{11}(1535) resonance, the process which intermediates the production of the eta meson, is predominantly due to the exchange of the pi meson between the colliding nucleons.

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Analysing power measurements for excess energy 10 MeV.

Analysing power measurements for excess energy 36 MeV.


Measurement of the eta production in proton proton collisions with the COSY time of flight spectrometer.

The COSY-TOF collaboration Abdel-Bary, M. ; Abdel-Samad, S. ; Bilger, R. ; et al.
Eur.Phys.J.A 16 (2003) 127-137, 2003.
Inspire Record 587236 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.43626

The reaction pp -> pp eta was measured at excess energies of 15 and 41 MeV at an external target of the Juelich Cooler Synchrotron COSY with the Time of Flight Spectrometer. About 25000 events were measured for the excess energy of 15 MeV and about 8000 for 41 MeV. Both protons of the process pp eta were detected with an acceptance of nearly 100% and the eta was reconstructed by the missing mass technique. For both excess energies the angular distributions are found to be nearly isotropic. In the invariant mass distributions strong deviations from the pure phase space distributions are seen.

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Angular distribution of the ETA in the CM frame.

Angular distribution of the P P momentum in the CM frame.

Squared P P invariant mass distribution.

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Measurement of the p p ---> p p eta total cross-section between 1.265-GeV and 1.5-GeV

Chiavassa, E. ; Dellacasa, G. ; De Marco, N. ; et al.
Phys.Lett.B 322 (1994) 270-274, 1994.
Inspire Record 376677 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.28768

The total cross section of the pp→ pp η reaction has been measured at incident proton energies of 1.265, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 GeV by detecting the two photons from the η decay in the PINOT spectrometer. The data are compared with other near-threshold measurements and with the predictions of existing theoretical calculations.

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Value given at 1263 MeV assumes energy 2 MeV lower than nominal value. This uncertainty only affects this lowest energy point.