Search for Exotic Mesons in pi- P Interactions at 18 GeV/c

LoSecco, J. M.; Adams, T.; Bishop, J. M.; Cason, N. M.; Manak, J. J.; Sanjari, A. H.; Shephard, W. D.; Stienike, D. L.; Taegar, S. A.; Thompson, D. R.; Chung, S. U.; Hackenburg, R. W.; Olchanski, C.; Weygand, D. P.; Willutzki, H. J.; Denisov, S.; Dushkin, A.; Kochetkov, V.; Shein, I.; Soldatov, A.; Brabson, B. B.; Crittenden, R. R.; Dzierba, A. R.; Gunter, J.; Lindenbusch, R.; Rust, D. R.; Scott, E.; Smith, P. T.; Sulanke, T.; Teige, S.; Bar-Yam, Z.; Dowd, J. P.; Eugenio, P.; Hayck, M.; Kern, W.; King, E.; Bodyagin, V. A.; Gribushin, A. M.; Kodolova, O. L.; Kostin, M. A.; Korotkikh, V. L.; Ostrovidov, A. I.; Proskuryakov, A. S.; Sarycheva, L. I.; Sinev, N. B.; Vardanyan, I. N.; Yershov, A. A.; Brown, D. S.; Pedlar, T. K.; Seth, K. K.; Wise, J.; Zhao, D.; Adams, G. S.; Napolitano, J.; Nozar, M.; Smith, J. A.; Witkowski, M.

Search for Exotic Mesons in pi- P Interactions at 18 GeV/c

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The recent search for non $q \bar{q}$ mesons in $π^{-}p$ interactions at Brookhaven National Laboratory is summarized. Many final states such as $ηπ$, $η' π^{-}$, $a_{0} π$, $f_{1} π$, $a_{2} π$, $b_{1} π$, which are favored decay modes of exotics, are under investigation.
9 pages, PostScript, Presented at the International School of Nuclear Physics, Erice, Sicily, Italy, September 1995