This is a copy of the WA89 document tree located on machine
vsnhd1.cern.ch
at CERN, Geneva from 1994 to 2002.
The original pages are no longer online.
The pages have not been modified, with the exception of internal links
that I have adapted to make them work again.
You may expect to find some outdated information.
Here is the original welcome page
without this notice.
Ulrich Müller, April 2002
Welcome to WA89 !
A Bristol -
CERN -
Genoa -
Grenoble -
Heidelberg (Univ.
and MPIfK) -
Mainz -
Moscow collaboration
The Hyperon Beam Experiment WA89 is a large acceptance forward spectrometer
dedicated to the spectroscopy of charmed strange baryons and exotic multiquark
states like the U-diquonium and the H-dibaryon. The strange quark in the beam
should make a production of final states containing strangeness rather
efficient. The study of charmed baryons aims at the better understanding of
charm and baryon production and their decay properties governed by an interplay
of weak and strong interaction. The observation of yet unobserved missing
baryon ground and excited states will be a further test of the very successful
constituent quark model. This is true in particular for the spectroscopy of
exotic quark configurations as their observation or nonobservation will lead to
a deeper understanding of the short range interaction between quarks bound in a
hadronic system.
WA89
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