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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 439, Issue 4, 24 June 1985, Pages 721-740
Nuclear Physics A

Particle-gamma coincidence measurements in 12C + 12C and 12C + Pb collisions at 2.1 GeV/nucleon incident energy

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Abstract

A particle-gamma coincidence experiment has been performed with a 2.1 GeV per nucleon 12C beam from the Bevalac. Data were taken with C and Pb targets. The γ-ray spectra are almost independent of the energy or the kind of charged particles detected in coincidence, mainly protons and deuterons. These γ-ray spectra are interpreted as resulting from π0 decay, and are consistent with known π0 production rates. A search for a possible decay of singly-charged anomalons into a gamma and a deuteron (or unbound proton-neutron system) has been done by studying the γp and γd invariant mass distributions. The upper limits for such a process are found to be 2 to 20% of the deuteron production rate, for anomalon masses for 200 to 400 MeV above the deuteron mass, with an anomalon mean lifetime of up to 10−9 s, depending on which kind of decay process is considered.

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