1. Pionic hydrogen and deuterium
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Gotta, Detlev, Amaro, F. D., Indelicato, P., Jensen, T. S., Le Bigot, E.-O., Manil, B., Markushin, V. E., Marton, J., Nekipelov, M., Pomerantsev, V. N., Popov, V. P., el Hassani, A. J. Rusi, Anagnostopoulos, D. F., Schlesser, S., Schmid, Ph., Strauch, Th., Theisen, M., Trassinelli, M., Veloso, J. F. C. A., Zmeskal, J., Gruber, A., Simons, L. M., dos Santos, J. M. F., Bühler, P., Liu, Y.-W., Covita, D. S., Fuhrmann, H., Gorke, H., Hennebach, M., Hirtl, A., and Ishiwatari, T.
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ddc:530 - Abstract
International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related Topics, EXA2021, Vienna, Austria, 13 Sep 2021 - 17 Sep 2021; The European physical journal / Web of Conferences 262, 01005 (2022). doi:10.1051/epjconf/202226201005, The strong-interaction effects both in pionic hydrogen and deuterium atoms have been re-determined with improved precision. The hadronic shift and width in pionic hydrogen together with the hadronic shift in pionic deuterium constitute a one-fold constraint for the two independent pion-nucleon scattering lengths. Furthermore, the hadronic width in pionic deuterium measures the transition strength of s-wave pions on an isoscalar nucleon-nucleon pair which is an independent quantity not related to the pion-nucleon scattering lengths. The experiment was performed at the Paul Scherrer Institute by stopping a high-intensity low-energy pion beam in gaseous targets using the cyclotron trap. The X-rays emitted by the πH and πD atoms were analysed with a high resolution Bragg spectrometer equipped with spherically bent crystals. The pion-nucleon scattering lengths and other physical quantities extracted from the atom data are in good agreement with the results obtained from pionnucleon and nucleon-nucleon scattering experiments and confirm that a consistent picture is achieved for the low-energy pion-nucleon sector with respect to the expectations of chiral perturbation theory., Published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis
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