Abstract: | The spin-parity analysis of the data on the
annihilation reaction at rest in liquid and in gaseous hydrogen at 3 bar pressure and in flight at
momentum of
MeV/c, collected by the Obelix spectrometer at the LEAR complex of CERN, is presented. The relative branching ratios
and
are obtained. It is also shown that the inclusion of the exotic meson
, JPC = 1- + , mass and width
,
GeV/c2, in its decay to
, improves the fit and some implications of these results are briefly discussed. The relative S and P-wave annihilation percentages in four charged pions at two target densities are obtained.Received: 2 December 2003, Published online: 23 April 2004 |