H. Aoyagi et al., NEW RESULTS ON SPECTROSCOPY FROM BENKEI, Nuovo cimento della Società Italiana di Fisica. A. Nuclei, particles and fields, 107(10), 1994, pp. 1925-1939
New results on meson spectroscopy at KEK are presented. Experimental d
ata on the reaction pi(-)p --> eta pi(-)p at 6.3 GeV/c have been colle
cted by the Benkei spectrometer at the 12 GeV proton synchrotron to th
e aim of searching for IJ(PC) = 11(-)+ states in the eta pi(-) system.
A marked forward-backward asymmetry of the events is observed in the
Gotffried-Jackson frame of the eta pi(-) system. The result of the par
tial-wave analysis shows a clear bump of the P-+ wave around 1320 MeV/
c(2). Checks for the result and the analysis are discussed.