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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 91, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.142302
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We report the first observation of the charge symmetry breaking d+d--> He-4 +pi(0) reaction near threshold. Measurements using a magnetic channel (gated by two photons) of the He-4 scattering angle and momentum (from time of flight) permitted reconstruction of the pi(0) missing mass, the quantity used to separate He-4 +pi(0) events from the continuum of double radiative capture 4He +gamma+gamma events. We measured total cross sections for neutral pion production of 12.7+/-2.2 pb at 228.5 MeV and 15.1+/-3.1 pb at 231.8 MeV. The uncertainty is dominated by statistical errors. These cross sections arise fundamentally from the down-up quark mass difference and quark electromagnetic effects that contribute in part through meson mixing (e.g., pi(0)-eta) mechanisms.
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