Measurement of the $π^{-}$ form factor

1 October 1981

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D

Vol. 24 (7) , 1718-1735
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.24.1718

Abstract

An experiment to measure the electromagnetic form factor of the negative

π

meson has been carried out at Fermilab by elastically scattering 100-GeV/c pions from the atomic electrons in a liquid-hydrogen target. We find that the elastic differential scattering cross section is characterized by a root-mean-square pion charge radius of 0.56±0.04 fm. This paper described our experimental design, measurement resolutions, event triggering logic, event reconstruction, experimental corrections, and form-factor results.

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Measurement of theπ−form factor

Abstract

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Measurement of the $π^{-}$ form factor