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Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Nov 05;87(19):192001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.192001. Epub 2001 Oct 22.

Determination of the quadratic slope parameter in eta-->3pi(0) decay.

Physical review letters

W B Tippens, S Prakhov, C E Allgower, V Bekrenev, E Berger, W J Briscoe, M Clajus, J R Comfort, K Craig, A Efendiev, D Grosnick, B R Holstein, G M Huber, D Isenhower, N Knecht, D Koetke, A Koulbardis, N Kozlenko, S Kruglov, G J Lolos, I Lopatin, D M Manley, A Marusić, R Manweiler, S McDonald, B M Nefkens, J Olmsted, Z Papandreou, N Phaisangittisakul, J W Price, M Pulver, A F Ramirez, M E Sadler, A Shafi, H Spinka, S Stanislaus, A Starostin, H M Staudenmaier

Affiliations

  1. University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1547.

PMID: 11690403 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.192001

Abstract

We have determined the quadratic slope parameter alpha for eta-->3pi(0) to be alpha = -0.031(4) from a 99% pure sample of 10(6)eta-->3pi(0) decays produced in the reaction pi(-)p-->n(eta) close to the eta threshold using the Crystal Ball detector at the AGS. The result is four times more precise than the present world data and disagrees with current chiral perturbation theory calculations by about four standard deviations.

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