Meson Spectroscopy at COMPASS

Abstract

The goal of the COMPASS experiment at CERN is to study the structure and dynamics of hadrons. The two-stage spectrometer used by the experiment has large acceptance and covers a wide kinematic range for charged as well as neutral particles and can therefore measure a wide range of reactions. The spectroscopy of light mesons is performed with negative (mostly ${\pi }^{-}$) and positive ($p$, ${\pi }^{+}$) hadron beams with a momentum of 190 GeV/$c$. The light-meson spectrum is measured in different final states produced in diffractive dissociation reactions with squared four-momentum transfer $t$ to the target between 0.1 and 1.0 $(\text{GeV}/c{)}^2$. The flagship channel is the ${\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}$ final state, for which COMPASS has recorded the currently world's largest data sample. These data not only allow to measure the properties of known resonances with high precision, but also to observe new states. Among these is a new axial-vector signal, the $a_1(1420)$, with unusual properties. Novel analysis techniques have been developed to extract also the amplitude of the ${\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}$ subsystem as a function of $3\pi$ mass from the data. The findings are confirmed by the analysis of the ${\pi }^{-}{\pi }^0{\pi }^0$ final state.

7 pages, 12 figures, proceedings of the "14th International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction" (MESON2016), Kraków, Poland, June 02-07, 2016

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