The DIRAC experiment at CERN
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The DIRAC experiment at CERN aims to measure the lifetime of the pionium atom (), a bound state with an accuracy of 10%. The experimental setup consists of a high precision magnetic double arm spectrometer, located at the high intensity proton beam of the CERN Proton Synchrotron. This measurement will provide - in a model independent way - the S-wave pion scattering length difference with 5% precision.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0305121,
title = {The DIRAC experiment at CERN},
author = {Ch. P. Schuetz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0305121},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Talk presented at the XXXVIIIth Rencontres de Moriond session devoted to QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions. We give a status report of the DIRAC experiment and present new analysis results