Studies of the $\eta$ meson with WASA at COSY and KLOE-2 at DA$\Phi$NE

Abstract

One of the basic motivations of the KLOE-2 and WASA-at-COSY experiments is the test of fundamental symmetries and the search for phenomena beyond the Standard Model in the hadronic and leptonic decays of ground-state mesons and in particular in decays of the $\eta$ meson. At COSY these mesons are produced in collisions of proton or deuteron beam with hydrogen or deuterium pellet target, and at DA$\Phi$NE $\eta$ mesons originate from radiative decays of $\varphi$ meson or from the fusion of virtual gamma quanta exchanged between colliding electrons and positrons. This contribution includes brief description of experimental techniques used by KLOE-2 and WASA-at-COSY as well as some of physics aspects motivating investigations of production and decays of $\eta$ mesons.

arXiv commentInvited talk at the 3rd International Conference on Nuclear and Particle Physics with CEBAF at Jefferson Lab, October 3-8, 2010, Dubrovnik, Croatia