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The NNbar and multihadron production at the threshold at VEPP2000

  • Solodov E. P.,
  • Akhmetshin R. R.,
  • Amirkhanov A. N.,
  • Anisenkov A. V.,
  • Aulchenko V. M.,
  • Banzarov V. Sh.,
  • Bashtovoy N. S.,
  • Berkaev D. E.,
  • Bondar A. E.,
  • Bragin A. V.,
  • Eidelman S. I.,
  • Epifanov D. A.,
  • Epshteyn L. B.,
  • Erofeev A. L.,
  • Fedotovich G. V.,
  • Gayazov S. E.,
  • Grebenuk A. A.,
  • Gribanov S. S.,
  • Grigoriev D. N.,
  • Ignatov F. V.,
  • Ivanov V. L.,
  • Karpov S. V.,
  • Kazanin V. F.,
  • Koop I. A.,
  • Kirpotin A. N.,
  • Korobov A. A.,
  • Kozyrev A. N.,
  • Kozyrev E. A.,
  • Krokovny P. P.,
  • Kuzmenko A. E.,
  • Kuzmin A. S.,
  • Logashenko I. B.,
  • Lukin P. A.,
  • Mikhailov K. Yu.,
  • Okhapkin V. S.,
  • Pestov Yu. N.,
  • Popov A. S.,
  • Razuvaev G. P.,
  • Rogovsky Yu. A.,
  • Ruban A. A.,
  • Ryskulov N. M.,
  • Ryzhenenkov A. E.,
  • Semenov A. V.,
  • Shatunov Yu. M.,
  • Shatunov P. Yu.,
  • Shebalin V. E.,
  • Shemyakin D. N.,
  • Shwartz B. A.,
  • Shwartz D. B.,
  • Sibidanov A. L.,
  • Titov V. M.,
  • Talyshev A. A.,
  • Vorobiov A. I.,
  • Zemlyansky I. M.,
  • Yudin Yu. V.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921207002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 212
p. 07002

Abstract

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A study of hadron production at the nucleon-antinucleon threshold has been performed with the CMD-3 detector at the VEPP-2000 e+e− collider. A very fast rise with an about 1 MeV width has been observed in the e+e−→ pp̅ cross section. A sharp drop in the e+ e−→ 3(π+π−) cross section has been con?rmed and found to have a width of less than 2 MeV, in agreement with the observed fast rise of the e+e−→ pp̅ cross section. For the ?rst time a similar sharp drop is demonstrated in the e+e−→ K+ K−π+π− cross section. The behavior of the e+e−→ 3(π+ π−), K+ K−π+π− cross sections cannot be explained by an interference of any resonance amplitude with continuum, therefore this phenomenon cannot be due to a narrow near-threshold resonance. No such structure has been observed in the e+e−→ 2(π+π−) cross section.