Eur. Phys. J. C (2004) 35: 21-33
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2004-01811-8
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2004-01811-8
theoretical physics
annihilation into four charged pions at rest and in flight
The spin-parity analysis of the data on the 
annihilation reaction at rest in liquid and in gaseous hydrogen at 3 bar pressure and in flight at 
momentum of 
MeV/c, collected by the Obelix spectrometer at the LEAR complex of CERN, is presented. The relative branching ratios 
and 
are obtained. It is also shown that the inclusion of the exotic meson 
, J
PC
= 1- + , mass and width 
, 
GeV/c2, in its decay to 
, improves the fit and some implications of these results are briefly discussed. The relative S and P-wave annihilation percentages in four charged pions at two target densities are obtained.
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