Total cross sections for the pp->pp eta' reaction have been measured in the excess energy range from Q=1.53 MeV to Q=23.64 MeV. The experiment has been performed at the internal installation COSY-11 using a stochastically cooled proton beam of the COoler SYnchrotron COSY and a hydrogen cluster target. The determined energy dependence of the total cross section weakens the hypothesis of the S-wave repulsive interaction between the eta' meson and the proton. New data agree well with predictions based on the phase-space distribution modified by the proton-proton final-state-interaction (FSI) only.
Preprint: FZJ-IKP(I)-2000-1
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E-print:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/nucl-ex/0001001
Publication:
Phys.Lett. B
474
(2000)
416-422