Four-Pion Decay of the $f^{0}$ Meson

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16 December 1968

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

Vol. 21 (25) , 1712-1715
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.21.1712

Abstract

The reaction

π^{-} p \to f^{0} n \to 2 π^{+} 2 π^{-} n

has been observed at 5 GeV/c with

σ = 11.5 \pm 4

μb (

1.20 < m_{4 π} < 1.32

,

| t | < 0.2

Ge

V^{2}

).

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