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A study of 540 τ-meson decays

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

Summary

A homogenous sample of 540 τ-meson decays found in emulsion stacks exposed to the Berkeley Bevatron has been studied. Most of the events have been located by track scanning, and the effects of geometrical and scanning biases have been minimized. The results are discussed in detail and then combined with those of a comparably large sample examined byBaldo-Ceolin et al. (2). The most probable spin-parity assignment is 0 and the deviations of the positive and negative pion energy spectra from those predicted by the relativistic statistical factor, already noted byBaldo-Ceolin et al., have been confirmed and estimated.

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Si è studiato un campione omogeneo di 540 decadimentiτ trovati in pacchi di emulsioni esposti al bevatrone di Berkeley. La maggior parte degli eventi è stata individuata osservando lungo la traccia e si sono resi minimi gli effetti dovuti a fattori geometrici e d’osservazione. Si discutono i risultati in dettaglio e si combinano poi con quelli forniti da un campione di volume comparabilmente grande studiato daBaldo-Ceolin et al. (2). La più probabile assegnazione di spin-parità è 0 e abbiamo potuto confermare e valutare le deviazioni degli spettri dell’energia positiva e negativa dei pioni dai valori predetti dal fattore statistico relativistico, già osservate daBaldo-Ceolin et al.

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A preliminary report on this study was presented at thePadua-Venice Conference on Mesons and Recently Discovered Particles (1957).

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McKenna, S., Natali, S., O’Connell, M. et al. A study of 540 τ-meson decays. Nuovo Cim 10, 763–774 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02859532

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