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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