The production of eta mesons has been measured in the proton-proton interaction close to the reaction threshold using the COSY-11 internal facility at the cooler synchrotron COSY. Total cross sections were determined for eight different excess energies (epsilon) in the range from epsilon = 0.5 MeV to epsilon = 5.4 MeV. The energy dependence of the total cross section is well described by the available phase-space volume weighted by FSI factors for the proton-proton and proton-eta pairs.
Preprint: FZJ-IKP(I)-1999-1
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E-print:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/nucl-ex/9912011
Publication:
Phys.Lett. B
474
(2000)
182-187