Measurement of the pionium lifetime


Abstract in English

We report the progress in the measurement of the pionium lifetime by the DIRAC Collaboration at CERN (PS212). Based on data collected in 2001-2003 on Ni targets we have achieved the precision of 11% in the measurement of the pionium lifetime, which corresponds to the measurement of S-wave pion-pion scattering lengths difference |a0-a2| with the accuracy of 6%.

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