The <(p)over bar p> total annihilation cross section has been measured, with the Obelix apparatus at LEAR, at ten values of the antiproton incident momentum between 43 and 175 MeV/c. The values of the cross section show that the well known 1/p behaviour of the annihilation cross section is drastically modified at very low momenta, which demonstrates the important role of the Coulomb force in low energy <(p)over bar p> interaction. Moreover, they do not present any explicit resonant behaviour. Finally, when compared to potential model calculations, the data suggest that the percentage of P-wave in <(p)over bar p> interaction around 50 MeV/c antiproton incident momentum is less than 5%. RI Galli, Domenico/A-1606-2012; Iazzi, Felice/F-4490-2012; Botta, Elena/G-9742-2012; Villa, Mauro/C-9883-2009; Fontana, Andrea/I-4375-2012; Filippi, Alessandra/I-9530-2012
(p)over-bar-p annihilation cross section at very low energy
USAI, GIANLUCA;
1996-01-01
Abstract
The <(p)over bar p> total annihilation cross section has been measured, with the Obelix apparatus at LEAR, at ten values of the antiproton incident momentum between 43 and 175 MeV/c. The values of the cross section show that the well known 1/p behaviour of the annihilation cross section is drastically modified at very low momenta, which demonstrates the important role of the Coulomb force in low energy <(p)over bar p> interaction. Moreover, they do not present any explicit resonant behaviour. Finally, when compared to potential model calculations, the data suggest that the percentage of P-wave in <(p)over bar p> interaction around 50 MeV/c antiproton incident momentum is less than 5%. RI Galli, Domenico/A-1606-2012; Iazzi, Felice/F-4490-2012; Botta, Elena/G-9742-2012; Villa, Mauro/C-9883-2009; Fontana, Andrea/I-4375-2012; Filippi, Alessandra/I-9530-2012I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.