Physics Letters B (Jul 2019)

Observation of a fine structure in e+e− → hadrons production at the nucleon-antinucleon threshold

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

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 794
pp. 64 – 68

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. The very fast rise with about 1 MeV width has been observed in the e+e−→pp¯ cross section. A sharp drop in the e+e−→3(π+π−) cross section has been confirmed and found to have a less than 2 MeV width, in agreement with the observed fast rise of the e+e−→pp¯ cross section. For the first 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.