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The optical potential approach for low-energy scattering of $\eta$-mesons on three-body nuclei is compared to an exact treatment of the $\eta 3N$ system using four-body scattering theory with separable interactions in s-waves only. The…
The two-step model with pi-, rho- and omega- exchanges taken into account is applied to investigate the reactions pn -> d eta and pn -> d eta-prime. The existing experimental data on the reaction pn -> d eta are analysed and predictions for…
Incoherent $\eta$-photoproduction on the deuteron is studied for photon energies from threshold up to 720 MeV. The elementary $\gamma N \to \eta N$ amplitude is constructed in the frame of a conventional isobar model. Effects of final state…
We calculate the elastic and inelastic $\omega N\to \omega N, \to \pi N, \to \rho N, \to \rho \pi N, \to \pi \pi N, \to \sigma N$ reactions within a boson exchange approximation where the $\omega\rho\pi$ coupling constant and form factor…
New experimental data are presented on the energy dependence of the total cross sections for the np -> d eta and quasi-two-body pp -> pp eta reactions, where the final diproton is detected at very low excitation energy. Differential cross…
The importance of three-body dynamics in the $\eta np$ system in elastic and inelastic $\eta$-deuteron scattering as well as coherent and incoherent $\eta$ photoproduction on the deuteron in the energy region from threshold up to 30 MeV…
The production rate for \eta' in pp ->pp \eta' at rest is calculated in a covariant one boson exchange model, previously applied to study pi^0 and \eta production in NN collisions. The transition amplitudes for the elementary BN -> eta' N…
We analyse the $pp \to p \Lambda K$ cross section recently measured at COSY arguing that the enhancement of the production cross section at energies close to the reaction threshold should be due to the $\Lambda p$ final state interaction.…
The pp -> pp eta' reaction is investigated within a relativistic meson-exchange model of hadronic interactions. We explore the role of nucleonic and mesonic, as well as the N* resonance currents, in producing eta' mesons. In order to learn…
The total cross section for the near threshold eta production in proton-proton collisions has been investigated with the assumption that the production mechanism is due to the emission of a meson x (pi, eta, sigma) from one of the nucleons…
A study of the $p d \to p d \eta$ reaction in the energy range where the recent data from Uppsala are available, is done in the two-step model of $\eta$ production including the final state interaction. The $\eta -d$ final state interaction…
The interaction of an $\eta$-meson with two nucleons is studied within a three-body approach. The major features of the $\eta NN$-system in the low-energy region are accounted for by using a s-wave separable ansatz for the two-body $\eta…
Intensive quest for the eta and eta' bound states is currently ongoing at both theoretical and experimental levels e.g. at COSY, ELSA, GSI, JINR, JPARC, LPI, and MAMI. These studies were already supported by data provided by the COSY-11…
Preliminary results of recent measurements of the near threshold eta meson production in the dp-->dp eta reaction are presented. The experiment was performed at the COSY-Juelich accelerator with the use of the COSY-11 detection system. Data…
During last decade large samples of data have been collected on the production of the ground-state pseudoscalar mesons in collisions of proton or deuteron beam with hydrogen or deuterium target. These measurements have been performed in the…
A procedure is proposed which accounts for final state interaction corrections for near threshold meson production in nucleon-nucleon scattering. In analogy with the Watson-Migdal approximation, it is shown that in the limit of extremely…
A microscopic calculation of near-threshold eta-meson production in the reaction NN -> NNeta is presented. It is assumed that the eta meson is produced via direct emission and via elementary rescattering processes MN -> etaN of various…
The search for a quasi bound $\eta$ meson in atomic nuclei is reviewed. This tentative state is studied theoretically as well as experimentally. The theory starts from elastic $\eta$ nucleon scattering which is derived from production data…
It is argued that the strong energy dependence of the $p\, d \rightarrow \,^{3\!}H\!e\, \eta$ cross section near threshold is due to a final state interaction between the $\eta$ meson and the $^3$He nucleus. The large scattering length that…
We investigate the $\eta'$ photoproduction off the nucleon with a particular interest in the effect of the final-state interaction (FSI) of the $\eta'$ meson and nucleon $(\eta'N)$ based on three-flavor linear sigma model. We find an…