Abstract
A large nuclear emulsion stack was exposed in the magnetically analyzed beam of particles, at the Berkeley Bevatron. The secondaries of stopped -mesons have been analyzed, and examples of all the known modes of decay: , , , , , and have been identified. The decay processes of the , , and mesons have been confirmed, and a possible decay scheme for the has been considered. The masses of the particles decaying in the different ways have been determined from momentum-range measurements, and for and particles, from the of the decay as well. The masses of all the particles are consistent with a value of , within about . The relative frequencies of the various modes of decay have been estimated, and by comparison with other data, it is found that the apparent lifetimes of all the particles are ∼1× sec.
- Received 21 October 1955
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.101.1085
©1956 American Physical Society