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Publications and source records attributed to A. A. Drozdetsky.
The program of upgrade of the Spherical Neutral Detector for future experiments at a new VEPP-2000 $e^+e^-$ collider is presented. Modernization includes upgrades of electromagnetic calorimeter, tracking system, detector electronics, data acquisition system, and offline software. It is also planned to equip the detector with two new subsystems: particle identification system based on aerogel Cherenkov counters and external electron tagging system for $γγ$ physics.
The process e+e-->mu+mu- has been studied by SND detector at VEPP-2M e+e- collider in the phi(1020)-resonance energy region. The measured effective phi meson leptonic branching ratio: B(phi->l+l-)=sqrt{B(phi->e+e-)*B(phi->mu+mu-)}=(2.89+-0.10+-0.06)*10^{-4} agrees well with the PDG value B(phi->e+e-)=(2.91+-0.07)*10^{-4} confirming mu-e universality. Without additional assumption of mu-e universality the branching ratio B(phi->mu+mu-)=(2.87+-0.20+-0.14)*10^{-4} was obtained.
The $η\to π^0 γγ$ decay was investigated by the SND detector at VEPP-2M $e^+e^-$ collider in the reaction $e^+e^-\toϕ\to ηγ$. Here we present the results and some details of this study. We report an upper limit (90% c.l.) $Br(η\to π^0 γγ)<8.4\times 10^{-4}$ as our final result. Our upper limit does not contradict the earlier measurement by GAMS spectrometer. To facilitate future studies a rather detailed review of the problem is also given.
The current status of experiments with SND detector at VEPP-2M $e^+e^-$ collider in the energy range $2E_0=0.4-1.4$ GeV is given. The new results of analysis of $ϕ$ decay into $π^0π^0γ$, $ηπ^0γ$ are based on the full SND statistics corresponding 20 million of $ϕ$ decay. New measurement of $ω\toπ^0π^0γ$ decay and a first observation of $ρ\toπ^0π^0γ$ are presented. The accuracy of many other rare decays of light vector mesons was improved. In the energy range $2E_0=1.0\div1.4$ GeV the cross sections of the processes $e^+e^-\toωπ^0$ and $e^+e^-\toπ^+π^-π^0$ were measured. The results of the fitting of data are discussed.
A search for direct production of C-even resonances a2(1320) and f2(1270) in e+e- annihilation was performed with SND detector at VEPP-2M e+e- collider. The upper limits of electronic widths of these mesons were obtained at 90% confidence level: Gamma(a2(1320) \to e+e-) < 0.56 eV, Gamma(f2(1270) \to e+e-) < 0.11 eV.
The cross section of the $e^+e^-\toωπ^0\toπ^0π^0γ$ reaction was measured by the SND detector at VEPP-2M $e^+e^-$ collider in the energy range from threshold up to 1.4 GeV. Results of the cross section fitting by the sum of $ρ$, $ρ^{\prime}$ and $ρ^{\prime\prime}$ contributions are presented.
In the SND experiment at VEPP-2M $e^+e^-$ collider the $ϕ(1020)\toπ^0π^0γ$ decay was studied and its branching ratio was measured: $B(ϕ\toπ^0π^0γ)=(1.221\pm 0.098\pm0.061)\cdot10^{-4}$. It was shown, that $f_0(980)γ$ intermediate state dominates in this decay and the $f_0(980)$-meson parameters were obtained.
The new data on $ρ,ω,ϕ$ radiative decays into $π^0γ,ηγ,η'γ$ from SND experiment at VEPP-2M $e^+e^-$ collider are presented.
The processes $e^+e^-\toμ^+μ^-$ and $e^+e^-\toπ^+π^-$ have been studied with SND detector at VEPP-2M $e^+e^-$ collider in the vicinity of $ϕ(1020)$ resonance. The branching ratios $B(ϕ\toμ^+μ^-)=(3.30\pm 0.45\pm 0.32)\times 10^{-4}$ and $B(ϕ\toπ^+π^-)=(0.71\pm 0.11\pm 0.09)\times 10^{-4}$ were obtained.
The current status of experiments with SND detector at VEPP-2M e^+e^- collider in the energy range 2E_0=400-1400 MeV and recent results of data analysis for $ϕ$, $ω$ and $ρ$ decays and e^+e^- annihilation into hadrons are presented.
The Spherical Neutral Detector (SND) operates at VEPP-2M collider in Novosibirsk studying e^+e^- annihilation in the energy range up to 1.4 GeV. Detector consists of a fine granulated spherical scintillation calorimeter with 1632 NaI(Tl) crystals, two cylindrical drift chambers with 10 layers of sense wires, and a muon system made of streamer tubes and plastic scintillation counters. The detector design, performance, data acquisition and processing are described.
SND (Spherical Neutral Detector) is a general purpose nonmagnetic detector, successfully operating at Novosibirsk VEPP-2M collider during last four years in the center of mass energy range from 400 MeV up to 1400 MeV. Its crucial part is a 3-layer, fine grained, spherical NaI(Tl) electromagnetic calorimeter consisted of 1632 individual counters. Here we present a detailed description of the calorimeter and its performance, including such topics as calorimeter design, electronics, calibration, energy and spatial resolutions, particle identification. The calorimeter performance is illustrated by examples from the current studies of different physical processes.