DIRAC Experiment at CERN: Lifetime Measurement of Pionium
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The DIRAC experiment, a magnetic double arm spectrometer, aims to measure the atom lifetime with 10% precision, using the high intensity 24 GeV/c proton beam of the CERN Proton Synchrotron. Since the value of this lifetime of order ~s is dictated by strong interaction at low energy, a precise measurement of this quantity enables to study characteristic pion parameters in detail and to submit predictions of QCD to a severe check.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808407,
title = {DIRAC Experiment at CERN: Lifetime Measurement of Pionium},
author = {Juerg Schacher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808407},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures (eps and ps), conference, use dubna98.sty