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The investigation of Dalitz decays of neutral mesons is of general interest because the electromagnetic transition form factors observed in such decays provide a possibility to obtain information about the electromagnetic properties of the mesons as well as about their internal substructures. As a matter of fact quantum electrodynamics (QED) fails a correct prediction of Dalitz decays simply because the particles of focus are not point like. For that reason the vector meson dominance model (VMD) has been developed, which still requires further experimental verification. In the picture of VMD a virtual photon can couple to a vector meson as an intermediate state. With the CB/TAPS experiment at MAMI-C in Mainz, Germany, the Dalitz decays of the eta and the pion meson were measured and the associated transition form factors could be extracted. Moreover other decay modes of the pion, eta and the omega meson were investigated in order to determine the corresponding branching ratios. Beside a short theoretical introduction into the field of interest this work presents a full description of the experimental setup and contains detailed information about all steps of the analysis.
Autor: Berghäuser, Henning
ISBN: 9783838124315
Sprache: Deutsch
Produktart: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Verlag: Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften
Veröffentlicht: 21.06.2011
Untertitel: Determination of the electromagnetic transition form factors of the eta and the pion meson
born in 1981, studied physics and mathematics at the Justus Liebig Universität Gießen, followed by a Ph.D. in the field of particle physics. The author worked for the A2-Collaboration (CB/TAPS) and was involved in the ALICE and the ATLAS experiment while working as a research visitor at the Niels Bohr Institute and at the University of Sydney.