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DURBIN 1951C

Durbin, R.; Loar, H.; Steinberger, J.;
The Spin of the Pion via the Reaction π⁺ deuteron → p p
Phys. Rev. 83 (1951) 646;

Reprinted in
R. N. Cahn and G. Goldhaber, The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics, Cambridge Univ. Press (1991) 49.
The Physical Review - the First Hundred Years, AIP Press (1995) 834.

Abstracts
It is possible to determine the spin of the pion by comparing the forward and backward rates of the reaction π⁺ deuteron « p p. The backward rate has been measured in Berkeley. We have measured the forward rate. Comparison of the two results shows the spin to be zero. In the light of other recent experimental results the meson is then pseudoscalar.

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Related references
See also
C. N. Yang, Phys. Rev. 77 (1950) 242;
K. A. Brueckner, R. Serber, and K. M. Watson, Phys. Rev. 81 (1951) 575;
Analyse data from
F. S. Crawford, K. Crowe, and M. L. Stevenson, Phys. Rev. 82 (1951) 97;
A. S. Bishop, J. Steinberger, and L. J. Cook, Phys. Rev. 80 (1950) 291;
V. Z. Peterson, Phys. Rev. 79 (1950) 407;
H. Primakoff and F. Villars, Phys. Rev. 83 (1951) 686;
W. K. H. Panofsky, R. L. Aamodt, and J. Hadley, Phys. Rev. 81 (1951) 565;
J. Steinberger, W. K. H. Panofsky, and J. Steller, Phys. Rev. 78 (1950) 802;
Cartwright, Richman, M. M. Whitehead, and Wilcox, Phys. Rev. 81 (1951) 652;

Reactions

π+ deuteron 2p

75 MeV (Tlab)

cs, angp

Particles studied

π+

qn

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Determination of the spin of the π⁺.

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