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Measurement of the Radiative Decay Widths of the $$A^+_2$$ and $$K^{+^+}$$ (1430) Mesons

Thesis/Dissertation ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1433896· OSTI ID:1433896
We have investigated for the first time the coherent productions of the $$A^+_2$$ and $$K^{+^+}$$ (l430) mesons in the nuclear Coulomb field of Pb and Cu. The experiment was performed at Fermi lab using a high resolution forward spectrometer consisting of proportional and drift chambers plus a liquid argon photon calorimeter. The incident momentum was 200 Gev/c. We found that at this momentum strong production mechanisms give very small contributions. The data were analyzed allowing for a small amount of hadronic background to interfere with the dominant electromagnetic production of the $$A^+_2$$ and $$K^{+^+}$$ (1430) mesons. The results were used to extract values for the radiative decay widths of these mesons
Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1433896
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-THESIS-1982-14; 187849
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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