期刊
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 106, 期 16, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.162303
关键词
-
资金
- National Science Foundation [PHY-0079840]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC05-84ER40150]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [855338] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1002644, 0855661] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
High precision measurements of the differential cross sections for pi(0) photoproduction at forward angles for two nuclei, C-12 and Pb-208, have been performed for incident photon energies of 4.9-5.5 GeV to extract the pi(0) -> gamma gamma decay width. The experiment was done at Jefferson Lab using the Hall B photon tagger and a high-resolution multichannel calorimeter. The pi(0) -> gamma gamma decay width was extracted by fitting the measured cross sections using recently updated theoretical models for the process. The resulting value for the decay width is Gamma(pi(0) -> gamma gamma) = 7.82 +/- 0.14(stat) +/- 0.17(syst) eV. With the 2.8% total uncertainty, this result is a factor of 2.5 more precise than the current Particle Data Group average of this fundamental quantity, and it is consistent with current theoretical predictions.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据