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Measurement of the pionium lifetime

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-08-13 v3

Abstract

We report the progress in the measurement of the pionium lifetime by the DIRAC Collaboration at CERN (PS212). Based on data collected in 2001-2003 on Ni targets we have achieved the precision of 11% in the measurement of the pionium lifetime, which corresponds to the measurement of S-wave pion-pion scattering lengths difference |a0-a2| with the accuracy of 6%.

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@article{arxiv.0809.4963,
  title  = {Measurement of the pionium lifetime},
  author = {M. Zhabitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4963},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Parallel talk at ICHEP08, Philadelphia, USA, July 2008. 4 pages, LaTeX, 3 eps figures. v2: Term with pion mass squared was introduced into formula (1) to be consistent with scattering lengths normalization. v3: template update by the ICHEP08 organizing committee