2-7 June 2016
Auditorium Maximum
Europe/Warsaw timezone
14th International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction
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Auditorium Maximum - Exhibition room

New results of the antiproton-carbon annihilation cross section measurement at low energies

Speakers

  • Valerio MASCAGNA

Primary authors

  • Valerio MASCAGNA (Università degli Studi di Brescia - INFN Sezione di Pavia)
  • Luca VENTURELLI (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, 25133 Brescia, Italy & INFN - Pavia, 25133 Brescia, Italy)
  • Marco LEALI (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, 25133 Brescia, Italy & INFN - Pavia, 25133 Brescia, Italy)
  • Maurizio CORRADINI (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, 25133 Brescia, Italy & INFN - Pavia, 25133 Brescia, Italy)
  • Evandro LODI-RIZZINI (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, 25133 Brescia, Italy & INFN - Pavia, 25133 Brescia, Italy)
  • Hossein AGHAI-KHOZANI (Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, D-85748 Garching, Germany)
  • Masaki HORI (Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, D-85748 Garching, Germany)
  • Ryugo HAYANO (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan)
  • Yohei MURAKAMI (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan)
  • Michela PREST (Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, I-21100 Varese, Italy & INFN - Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano)
  • Erik VALLAZZA (INFN - Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy)
  • Yamada HIROYUKI (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan)

Abstract content

The antinucleon-nuclei annihilation cross section $\sigma_{ann}$ at very low energy has been measured at the LEAR facility (CERN) during the 80's and 90's and recently at the Antiproton Decelerator. The antineutron data at momenta below 180 MeV/c on several nuclei showed a steep rise which is expected only for the antiproton projectile due to its negative charge. The difference between the antineutron and the antiproton interaction with nuclei can be investigated measuring the $\sigma_{ann}$ of the antiprotons on the same nuclei and at the same energies. So far a direct comparison of the $\sigma_{ann}$ is possible only for momenta below 80 MeV/c (on proton) and at 100 MeV/c (on Sn target). The ASACUSA collaboration recently performed an experiment to measure the $\sigma_{ann}$ of 100 MeV/c antiprotons on a carbon target whose preliminary results are presented here.