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We report on an exclusive and kinematically complete high-statistics measurement of the basic doublepionic fusion reaction pn ! d 0 0 over the full energy region of the ABC effect, a pronounced low-mass enhancement in the -invariant mass spectrum. The measurements, which cover also the transition region to the conventional t-channel ÁÁ process, were performed with the upgraded WASA detector setup at COSY. The data reveal the Abashian-Booth-Crowe effect to be uniquely correlated with a Lorentzian energy dependence in the integral cross section. The observables are consistent with a narrow resonance PRL

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The differential and total cross sections for kaon pair production in the pp → ppK + K − reaction have been measured at three beam energies of 2.65, 2.70, and 2.83 GeV using the ANKE magnetic spectrometer at the COSY-Jülich accelerator. These near-threshold data are separated into pairs arising from the decay of the φ-meson and the remainder. For the non-φ selection, the ratio of the differential cross sections in terms of the K − p and K + p invariant masses is strongly peaked towards low masses. This effect can be described quantitatively by using a simple ansatz for the K − p final state interaction, where it is seen that the data are sensitive to the magnitude of an effective K − p scattering length. When allowance is made for a small number of φ events where the K − rescatters from the proton, the φ region is equally well described at all three energies. A very similar phenomenon is discovered in the ratio of the cross sections as functions of the K − pp and K + pp invariant masses and the identical final state interaction model is also very successful here. The world data on the energy dependence of the non-φ total cross section is also reproduced, except possibly for the results closest to threshold.