FIZIKA B 20 (2011) 3, 223-236

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STUDIES OF THE η MESON WITH WASA AT COSY AND KLOE-2 AT DAΦNE

PAWEL MOSKAL
for and on behalf of the KLOE-2 and WASA-at-COSY Collaborations
Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, PL-30-059 Cracow, Poland, and
Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany

Received 7 February 2011;    Accepted 21 December 2011
Online 3 February 2012

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 η meson. At COSY these mesons are produced in collisions of proton or deuteron beam with hydrogen or deuterium pellet target, and at DAΦNE η mesons originate from radiative decays of ϕ 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 η mesons.

PACS numbers: 14.40.Be, 11.30 Er, 13.25.-k, 13.20.-v, 13.75.-n, 13.66. Bc, 21.85.+d, 95.35.+d
UDC 539.126

Keywords: discrete symmetries, meson decays, meson production, mesic nuclei, dark matter

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