Ivanov EI, Stienike DL, Ryabchikov DI, Adams GS, Adams T, Bar-Yam Z, Bishop JM, Bodyagin VA, Brown DS, Cason NM, Chung SU, Cummings JP, Danyo K, Denisov SP, Dorofeev VA, Dowd JP, Eugenio P, Fan XL, Hackenburg RW, Hayek M, Joffe D, Kachaev IA, Kern W, King E, Kodolova OL, Korotkikh VL, Kostin MA, Kuhn J, Lipaev VV, LoSecco JM, Manak JJ, Napolitano J, Nozar M, Olchanski C, Ostrovidov AI, Pedlar TK, Popov AV, Sarycheva LI, Seth KK, Shen X, Shenhav N, Shephard WD, Sinev NB, Smith JA, Taegar SA, Tomaradze A, Vardanyan IN, Weygand DP, White DB, Willutzki HJ, Witkowski M, Yershov AA. Observation of exotic meson production in the reaction pi- p --> eta'pi- p at 18 GeV/c.
Phys Rev Lett 2001;
86:3977-3980. [PMID:
11328074 DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.86.3977]
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Abstract
An amplitude analysis of an exclusive sample of 5765 events from the reaction pi- p-->eta'pi- p at 18 GeV/c is described. The eta'pi- production is dominated by natural parity exchange and by three partial waves: those with J(PC) = 1(-+), 2(++), and 4(++). A mass-dependent analysis of the partial-wave amplitudes indicates the production of the a2(1320) meson as well as the a4(2040) meson, observed for the first time decaying to eta'pi-. The dominant, exotic (non- qq) 1(-+) partial wave is shown to be resonant with a mass of 1.597+/-0.010(+0.045)(-0.010) GeV/c2 and a width of 0.340+/-0.040+/-0.050 GeV/c2. This exotic state, the pi1(1600), is produced with a t dependence which is different from that of the a2(1320) meson, indicating differences between the production mechanisms for the two states.
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