A. Bertin et al., STUDY OF E I DECAYS INTO K(K)OVER-BAR-PI IN THE REACTION (P)OVER-BAR-P-]E/I-PI-PI/, Physics of atomic nuclei, 59(8), 1996, pp. 1312-1318
The results of the preliminary analysis of 4840 (K (K) over bar pi)pi
pi events, from a data sample of 24 million (p) over bar p annihilatio
ns at rest in a gaseous hydrogen target at NTP, collected with the OBE
LIX spectrometer at LEAR (CERN), are presented. The presence of two ps
eudoscalar states in the region around 140 MeV/c(2), already seen, for
the first time, in (p) over bar p annihilations at rest from analysis
of a data set taken with a liquid hydrogen target, is confirmed, The
lighter mass resonance decays mainly into K (K) over bar pi, while the
higher mass 0(-+) state decays only into K(K) over bar. A sizable fr
action of direct K(K) over bar production, from the initial P-wave pr
otonium state (about twice the value in liquid hydrogen), is observed,
as expected. No significant evidence for an axial vector emerges from
this preliminary analysis.