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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 137, 2017
XIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum
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| Article Number | 05012 | |
| Number of page(s) | 9 | |
| Section | Section B: Light Quarks | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713705012 | |
| Published online | 22 March 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713705012
Light-Meson Spectroscopy at Compass
Technische Universität München - Physik-Department - E18
a e-mail: fabian-krinner@mytum.de
Published online: 22 March 2017
The goal of the Compass experiment at CERN is to study the structure and spectroscopy of hadrons. The two-stage spectrometer has large acceptance and covers a wide kinematic range for charged as well as neutral particles allowing to access a wide range of reactions. Light mesons are studied with negative (mostly π−) and positive (p, π+) hadron beams with a momentum of 190 GeV/c.
The light-meson spectrum is measured in different final states produced in diffractive dissociation reactions with squared four-momentum transfer t to the target between 0.1 and 1.0 (GeV/c)2. The flagship channel is the π−π+π− final state, for which Compass has recorded the currently world’s largest data sample. These data not only allow us to measure the properties of known resonances with high precision, but also to search for new states. Among these is a new axial-vector signal, the a1(1420), with unusual properties. The findings are confirmed by the analysis of the π−π0π0 final state.
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