A study of antiproton annihilation in liquid deuterium into pi(+)pi(-)pi(-)
and a spectator proton is presented. For a long time this reaction resiste
d a description by final state interactions which is surprising (and distur
bing) given the success of the final state interaction model in other annih
ilation reactions. It is shown that the introduction of p(1450) is essentia
l to Set a reasonable description of the measured Dalitz plot. This resonan
ce was never tried in previous attempts to understand this data. A possible
isospin-2-pi-pi S-wave contribution was tested, but no evidence was found
for such a contribution. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved
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