A
bstract
The cross section of the process
e
+
e
−
→
π
+
π
−
has been measured in the Spherical Neutral Detector (SND) experiment at the VEPP-2000
e
+
e
−
collider VEPP-2000 in the energy region 525
...<
s
<
883 MeV. The measurement is based on data with an integrated luminosity of about 4.6 pb
−
1
. The systematic uncertainty of the cross section determination is 0.8% at
s
>
0
.
600 GeV. The
ρ
meson parameters are obtained as
m
ρ
= 775
.
3 ± 0
.
5 ± 0
.
6 MeV, Γ
ρ
= 145
.
6 ± 0
.
6 ± 0
.
8 MeV,
B
ρ
→
e
+
e−
×
B
ρ
→
π
+
π−
= (4
.
89 ± 0
.
02 ± 0
.
04) × 10
−
5
, and the parameters of the
e
+
e
−
→
ω
→
π
+
π
−
process, suppressed by
G
-parity, as
B
ω
→
e
+
e−
×
B
ω
→
π
+
π−
= (1
.
32 ± 0
.
06 ± 0
.
02) × 10
−
6
and and
ϕ
ρω
= 110
.
7 ± 1
.
5 ± 1
.
0 degrees.
The process
e
+
e
-
→
n
n
¯
is studied in the experiment at the VEPP-2000
e
+
e
-
collider with the SND detector. The technique of the time measurements in the multichannel NaI(Tl) electromagnetic ...calorimeter is used to select
n
n
¯
events. The value of the measured cross section in the center-of-mass energy range from 1.894 to 2 GeV varies from 0.5 to 0.35 nb. The effective neutron timelike form factor is derived from the measured cross section and compared with the proton form factor. The ratio of the neutron electric and magnetic form factors is obtained from the analysis of the antineutron polar angle distribution and found to be consistent with unity.
The process
e
+
e
-
→
η
η
γ
is studied in the center-of-mass energy range 1.17–2.00 GeV using data with an integrated luminosity of 201 pb
-
1
collected by the SND detector at the VEPP-2000
e
+
e
-
...collider. The
e
+
e
-
→
η
η
γ
cross section is measured for the first time. It is shown that the dominant mechanism of this reaction is the transition through the
ϕ
η
intermediate state. Our result on the
e
+
e
-
→
η
η
γ
cross section is consistent with the
e
+
e
-
→
ϕ
η
measurement in the
ϕ
→
K
+
K
-
mode. The search for radiative processes contributing to the
e
+
e
-
→
η
η
γ
cross section is performed, and no significant signal is observed.
Results are presented from measuring the
cross section and effective neutron timelike form factor. Data are collected in 2020–2021 at the VEPP-2000
collider in the 1891 to 2007 MeV center-of-mass ...range of energies. The general purpose nonmagnetic SND detector is used to detect neutron–antineutron events. The time-of-flight approach is used to select
events. The measured cross section is 0.4–0.6 nbn. The neutron form factor in the investigated range of energies varies from 0.3 to 0.2.
The SND is a non-magnetic detector deployed at the VEPP-2000
e
+
e
−
collider (BINP, Novosibirsk) for hadronic cross-section measurements in the center of mass energy range below 2 GeV. The important ...part of the detector is a hodoscopic electromagnetic calorimeter (EMC) with three layers of NaI(Tl) counters. EMC signal shaping and digitizing electronics based on FADC allow us to obtain both the energy deposition and the signal arrival time. We demonstrate how EMC time is applied to detect background pileup and cosmic events.
The process
is studied in the range of center-of-mass (c.m.) collision energies between 1.05 and 2.00 GeV on the basis of data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 94.5 pb
that were ...accumulated in an experiment with the SND detector at the VEPP-2000
collider. The cross section for this process was measured for the first time and was found to receive a dominant contribution from the mechanism of a transition through an
intermediate state. The cross section measured for the process
agrees with the results of earlier measurements in the channel
. At a level of 5.7 standard deviations (5.7
), it is established that the process
is not fully described by hadronic intermediate states of the
type. The cross section was measured for this missing contribution, which may be generated by radiative processes—for example,
. It ranges from 15 to 20 pb over a broad energy interval extending from 1.3 to 1.9 GeV.
The process
was studied in the energy range between 1 and 2 GeV to the best precision in the world. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of
accumulated with the SND detector at the ...VEPP-2000
collider. The statistical accuracy of the measured cross section is 2 to 22
, whereas the systematic uncertainty is 2.6 to 14
. The present results agree with the results of earlier measurements but have a better precision.
In an experiment with the SND detector at the VEPP-2000
collider, the cross sections for the processes
and
were measured at collision energies of
GeV in the center-of-mass frame. The results agree ...with the results of earlier measurements in the BABAR experiment and have a commensurate precision.
Using the SND detector, the process
was studied in the energy range between 1.05 and 2.00 GeV. The respective measurement was performed on the basis of data accumulated in the experiments at the ...VEPP-2000 electron–positron collider throughout the runs of 2011 and 2012. Also, the invariant-mass spectra of the
and
combinations were analyzed in the energy range between 1.15 and 2 GeV. This resulted in finding an indication that the
excited state decayed predominantly through the
intermediate state.
In the experiment with the SND detector at the VEPP-2000
collider, events of the process
were separated via measuring, in each counter of the multichannel calorimeter based on 1640 NaI(Tl) crystals, ...the time of delay of the signal from nonrelativistic antineutrons. The time resolution for events of the process
was 0.8 ns. The measured time spectrum of delays of the signal from antineutrons in the calorimeter at the c.m. energy of 1902 MeV agrees with the results of calculations.