Production of Heavy Unstable Particles in a $p - p$ Collision

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1 July 1955

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Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B

Vol. 99 (1) , 261-263
DOI:10.1103/physrev.99.261

Abstract

A hydrogen-filled diffusion cloud chamber was exposed to a 2.7-Bev proton beam. In a collection of 202

p - p

collisions, there was one event interpreted as the associated production of a hyperon and a

K

-meson, via the reaction

p + p \to Λ^{+} + K^{+} + n

.

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