THE PIONIC HYDROGEN EXPERIMENT AT PSI

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P IONIC H YDROGEN
AT
PSI
D. Gotta
Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich
EXOTIC ATOM
PRECISION TESTS OF LOW - ENERGY QCD
Moriond XXXVIII
QCD’03
ATOMIC CASCADE
 N scattering at „rest“
 1s 
app

a++ a–
 1s 

 –H
4p - 1s
3p - 1s
2p - 1s
 1s
 1s
3.04
2.88
2.43
 –D
3.25 keV
3.08 keV
2.60 keV
7
2
eV
1
1
eV
(a   p   o n ) 2
( a – )2
M OTIVATION
Chiral Perturbation Theory (PT)
Low-energy approach of QCD
Ecker, Gasser, Leutwyler, Meissner, Lyubovitzkij, Rusetski, Weinberg,...
PRECISON AT THE % LEVEL
H
 1s ,  1s

N scattering length
a+& a–

D
 1s

N
coupling constant



T
 3 He
first calculations
T  3He  a + &
a–
Baru, Haidenbauer, Hanhart, Niskanen
isospin breaking accessible ?
quark masses
u d
f2N
 H - H ADRONIC
N
SHIFT
1S
&
S - WAVE ISOSPIN SCATTERING LENGTHS
Coulomb- strong-int. interference
2nd order PT
O(2) in  = q, =1/137, =(md-mu)
V.E. Lyubovitskij & A. Rusetsky, Phys. Lett. B 494(2000)9
LECs f 1 ,f 2 ,c 1 contribute to isospin breaking in O(2)
predictions O(10%)
V.E. Lyubovitskij et al., Phys. Lett. B 520(2001)204
P RINCIPLE
OF
M EASUREMENT
crystal spectrometer
highest possible energy resolution
analysis of hit pattern

background reduction
High stop density

high X - ray line yields

bright X - ray source
DEGRADER and TARGET SETUP
inside
CYCLOTRON TRAP
super-conducting split coil magnet
  beam



X - rays
SPHERICALLY CURVED BRAGG CRYSTAL
100 mm

cut
Si 110
radius of curvature 2985.4 mm
L ARGE -A REA F OCAL P LANE D ETECTOR
pixel size 40 m  40 m
23
600  602 pixels per chip
CCD 22 array
frame transfer  10 ms
frame buffer
data processing
2.4 s
operates at – 100°C
cooling (LN 2 )
storage area

flexible boards

image area
  150 eV @ 4 keV
X  90%
N. Nelms et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth 484 (2002) 419
quartz 10.1
Si 111
C
quartz 10.1
resolution function
CH4
 12C(5d-4p)
 13C(5g-4f)
Bragg  38.6°
 12C(5f-4d)
 12C(5g-4f)
ENERGY RESOLUTION
1500 mbar @ T = 295K
 = 500  10 meV (FWHM) 

 = 524  16 meV (FWHM) 
@ C(5-4) - 2974 eV
ENERGY CALIBRATION
Bragg  40.0°
 18O(6h-5g)
quartz 10.1
 16O(6h-5g)
O
energy calibration
&
check of dispersion
mixture 4He / 16O2 / 18O2
(80%/50%/50%)
2 bar @ T = 86K
EFFECTS FROM

THE ATOMIC CASCADE
 p not an isolated system !
2.4 keV
1.
[(pp)p]ee – molecule formation („DH“)
?
 had
significant radiative decay modes ?
2.
Coulomb - de-excitation exists
Doppler broadening
non radiative process ni  nf + kinetic energy
 had
?

H line energy
!

H line width
isolated atomic system
hadronic broadening
1s
result of previous experiment: H.Ch.Schröder et al.
Eur. Phys. J. C 21 (2001) 473
H(3p-1s)
line width = 969  46 meV

3p = (12  5)%
correction for Coulomb de-excitation

increase of error !

1s
= 868  55 meV
S TRATEGY
S TUDY OF THE A TOMIC C ASCADE
COLLISIONAL EFFECTS VARY WITH DENSITY !
1. STEP
EQUIVALENT PRESSURE
4
10
28
800
LH2
TRANSITION
H(2p-1s)
H(3p-1s)
H(4p-1s)






 16O(6g-5d)
H(3p-1s) - DENSITY DEPENDENCE
Si 111
Bragg  43.3°
mixture H2 / 16O2
(98%/2%)
85K at 1.2 bar
 4 bar equivalent density
quartz 10.1
Bragg  40.0°
H2
20K at 2 bar
 28.5 bar equivalent density
quartz 10.1
Bragg  40.0°
H2
17K at 1 bar
LH2
first time
HADRONIC SHIFT
H(3p-1s)
1s
no density dependence identified
strong-interaction shift
in agreement with previous experiment
!
!
D pred.
T
radiative from molecule increases
radiative from molecule dominates
energy shift H
preliminary
preliminary
7200
Si 111
qu 10.1
Si 111
 / meV
7150
(3-1)
7100
7050
15
3.5
1994
2000
7000

previous experiment
H.-Ch.Schröder et al.
Eur.Phys.J.C 21(2001)473
3.9
28.5
LH2
2001 2001 2001
year of measurement
10
2002
bar
LINE WIDTH AND INITIAL STATE
Si 111
Bragg  54.2°
H2
30K at 1.2 bar
max. Tkin = 210 eV
 10 bar equivalent density
from n=1 Coul. deex.
H(2p-1s)
Si 111
Bragg  43.2°
max. Tkin = 75 eV
n=1
H(3p-1s)
Si 111
Bragg  40.5°
max. Tkin = 34 eV
n=1
H(4p-1s)
TOTAL LINE WIDTH

line shape = R

L
D
resolution
1s
Doppler broadening
C & ECRIT

Coulomb de-excitation
response function subtracted
H(2p-1s)
H(3p-1s)
H(4p-1s)



line width decreases
Coulomb de-excitation
not
total line width H
corrected for
Coulomb de-excitation
preliminary
preliminary
1400
Si 111
crystal resolution
qu 10.1
Si 111
subtracted
 / meV
1200
(2-1)
(3-1)
(4-1)
1000
800
15
3.5
1994
2000

previous experiment
H.-Ch.Schröder et al.
Eur.Phys.J.C 21(2001)473
3.9
28.5
LH2
2001 2001 2001
year of measurement
10
2002
bar
HADRONIC WIDTH 1s
(1) cascade theory
H Kinetic Energy Distribution
3 -2
5-4
4-3
higher
MC simulation T. Jensen, V.E.Markushin
(2) fit to the line shape
--
- -
Doppler „boxes“
natural line width 1s
total
H (3p - 1s)
Coulomb de-excitation
4-3
N
SCATTERING LENGTHS
a
new results
 1s = + 7.120  0.008  0.009 eV   
 1s = < 0.850 eV
  = (-7.2  2.9)%
J. Gasser et al.,
- - - multilpe scattering
& 3-body theory
Baru & Kudryavtsev
Phys.At.Nuc.60(1997)1475
Ericson,Loiseau & Thomas
Phys.Scr.T87(2000)71

Weinberg, Tomozawa ‘66
current algebra
  <<   !
Eur. Phys. J. C 26 (2003) 13
Gasser, Rusetsky
NEXT ...
Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance IonTrap

Resolution function of crystal spectrometer
electronic H- and He-like atoms
 X = 10 - 40 meV
TXplasma  5 eV
Hitz et al., Rev.Sci.Instr.,2000
SETUP
ECRIT and CRYSTAL SPECTROMETER
March 2002
INITIAL MEASUREMENT
 HF 6.4 GHZ
 ARGON
 crystals silicon 111, quartz 10-1
FIRST PLASMA
INSIDE HEXAPOLE
Ar 16 +

 = 10-8 s
E = 3104 eV
FOLLOWING ...
Muonic Hydrogen
LINE SHAPE OF X-RAY TRANSITIONS
µ-H(2p-1s) @ 15 bar
1.89 keV
Monte-Carlo simulation from
cascade model calculation (V.E. Markushin –PSI)
SUMMARY
experiment
theory
 1s  1s
210 -3
310 -2
 1s  1s
710 -2 ?
< 10 -2

2003
crystals
ECRIT
2004 …
H
Coulomb de-excitation
H
high statistics
finally
 1s  1s   1%
Experiment R-98.01
Paul-Scherrer-Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
PIONIC HYDROGEN COLLABORATION
Debrecen 1 – Ioannina 2 – Jülich 3 – Leicester 4 –
Paris 5 – PSI 6 – Wien 7– ETH Zürich 8
D. F, Anagnostopoulos2, S. Biri1, S. Boucard5, M. Cargnelli7, S.Diehl5, A. Dax6,
H. Fuhrmann7, M. Giersch7, D Gotta3, A. Gruber7, M. Hennebach3, A.Hirtl7,
P. Indelicato5, Th. Jensen8, Y.-W. Liu6, B. Manil5, J. Marton7, V. E. Markushin6,
N. Nelms5, P. A. Schmelzbach6, L. M. Simons6, M. Trasinelli5, J. Zmeskal7
Cascade
PSI, ETH Zürich
CCDs
Leicester, PSI, Vienna
Cryogenic target
Vienna
Crystal spectrometer
Jülich
Cyclotron trap
PSI
Data analysis
Ioannina, Jülich, Paris, Vienna
ECRIT
Debrecen, PSI
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