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COSY-TOF

The physics goal of the COSY-TOF Collaboration are measurements of meson production in proton-proton and proton-deuteron collisions from threshold to some 100 MeV excess energies.
Due to the kinematical completeness of the measurements all observables can be determined: total and differential cross sections, angular distributions, Dalitz Plots, etc.
The shape of the distribution of these variables can be compared with results of theoretical predictions which give a better understanding of the nucleon - nucleon, nucleon - meson and meson - meson interaction, of the excitation of nucleon resonances and of the specific production mechanism of the reaction channels.
The experimental setup can be modified into Short or Long versions.

Publications

For more recent publications see: INSPIRE

1. Single-Pion Production in pp Collisions at 0.95 GeV/c (II)
The COSY-TOF Collaboration, European Physical Journal A39 (2009) 281

2. Two-pion production in proton-proton collisions with a polarized beam
The COSY-TOF Collaboration, European Physical Journal A37 (2008) 267

3. Single pi- production in np collisions for excess energies up to 90 MeV
The COSY-TOF Collaboration, European Physical Journal A36 (2008) 7

4. Analyzing power Ay for omega meson production in proton-proton collisions
The COSY-TOF Collaboration, Physics Letters B662 (2008) 14

5. Improved study of a possible Theta+ production in the pp -> p K0 Sigma+ reaction with the COSY-TOF spectrometer
The COSY-TOF Collaboration, Physics Letters B649 (2007) 252

6. Comparison of isoscalar vector meson production cross sections in proton-proton collisions
The COSY-TOF Collaboration, Physics Letters B647 (2007) 351

7. Single-pion production in pp collisions at 0.95 GeV/c (I)
The COSY-TOF Collaboration, European Physical Journal A30 (2006) 443

8. Study of spectator tagging in the reaction np -> pp pi- with a deuteron beam
The COSY-TOF Collaboration, European Physical Journal A29 (2006) 353

9. Hyperon production in the channel pp -> K+ p Lambda near the reaction threshold
The COSY-TOF Collaboration, Physics Letters B632 (2006) 27

10. Evidence for a narrow resonance at 1530 MeV/c2 in the K0 p - system of the reaction pp -> Sigma+ K0 p from the COSY-TOF experiment
The COSY-TOF Collaboration, Physics Letters B595 (2004) 127

11. Study of the reaction pp -> pp pi0 within 10 MeV above the threshold
The COSY-TOF Collaboration, European Physical Journal A17 (2003) 595

12. Measurement of the eta production in proton-proton collisions with the COSY time-of-flight spectrometer
The COSY-TOF Collaboration, European Physical Journal A16 (2003) 127

13. Production of omega mesons in proton-proton collisions
COSY-TOF Collaboration, Physics Letters B522 (2001) 16

14. Proton Proton Bremsstrahlung at 797 MeV/c
R. Bilger et al., Physics Letters B429 (1998) 195

15. Strangeness Production in the Reaction pp -> pK+Lambda in the Threshold region
R. Bilger et al., Physics Letters B420 (1998) 217