Differential Cross-Sections for the Charge Exchange Process pi+ p ---> pi0 (pi+ p) at 8-GeV/c, 16-GeV/c and 23-GeV/c

The Aachen-Berlin-Bonn-CERN-Cracow-Heidelberg collaboration Baker, P A ; Barnham, Keith W.J. ; Buschbeck, Brigitte ; et al.
Nucl.Phys.B 85 (1975) 31-38, 1975.
Inspire Record 90862 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.32119

The differential cross section d σ d t′ for the charge-exchange process π + p → π 0 ( π + p) at 8, 16 and 23 GeV/ c is presented for several regions of the π + p effective mass. It is found that the dip at t ′ ≈ 0.6 (GeV/ c ) 2 which is observed in the Δ(1236) mass band becomes a less pronounced structure in the higher mass regions. However, while the slope of the d σ d t′ distributions in the near-forward direction decreases strongly with increasing π + p mass, there is no evidence that the observed structure moves to higher values of t ′ as the π + p mass increases. These results are consistent with a Regge-exchange picture where the position of the dip is determined by the exchanged trajectory, but are inconsistent with a simple geometrical picture.

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TP DEPENDENCE FOR FOUR <PI+ P> MASS INTERVALS.


PRISM Plot Analysis of the Reaction pi+ p --> p pi+ pi+ pi- at 16-GeV/c

The AACHEN-BERLIN-BONN-CERN-CRACOW-HEIDELBERG collaboration Deutschmann, M. ; Schmitz, P. ; Schulte, R. ; et al.
Nucl.Phys.B 86 (1975) 221, 1975.
Inspire Record 104924 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.32122

A study of the reaction π + p → p π + π o at 16 GeV/ c incident momentum has been made using the prism plot analysis to reject background events arising from elastic and multineutral contaminations and to separate different reaction channels ( ϱ + p, g + p, Δ + π + , Δ ++ π o , π + (p π o ) DD ). Cross sections, invariant mass distributions and production and decay angular distributions are presented. For the channel corresponding to proton diffraction dissociation strong violation of both s - and t -channel helicity conservation is found for low values of the (p π o ) mass. We demonstrate that the prism plot method provides a better separation of background events than conventional methods using kinematic cuts.

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STATISTICAL ERRORS ONLY.

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