https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10181-x
Regular Article - Hadron Physics
ω- πγtransition form factor in proton-proton collisions
Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, PF 510119, 01314, Dresden, Germany
Received:
18
October
2006
Accepted:
2
January
2007
Published online:
5
February
2007
Dalitz decays of ω and ρ mesons, and
, produced in pp collisions are calculated within a covariant effective meson-nucleon theory. We argue that the ω transition form factor
is experimentally accessible in a fairly model-independent way in the reaction pp → ppπ0
e
+
e
- for invariant masses of the π0
e
+
e
- subsystem near the ω pole. Numerical results are presented for the intermediate-energy kinematics of envisaged HADES experiments.
PACS: 13.60.Le Meson production – / 13.75.-n Hadron-induced low- and intermediate-energy reactions and scattering (energy ⩽ 10 GeV) – / 13.85.Lg Total cross-sections – / 25.40.-h Nucleon-induced reactions –
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