ROPER RESONANCE

The Roper resonance, also known as P11(1440), is an unstable baryon state/particle with a mass of about 1,440 MeV/c2 and with a relatively wide full Breit-Wigner width Γ≈300 MeV/c2. It contains three up (u) or down (d) quarks with total spin J=1/2 and total isospin I=1/2. In the quark model it is considered to be a radially excited three-quark state with radial quantum number N=2 and positive parity. The Roper Resonance has been a subject of many studies because its mass is actually lower than three-quark states with radial quantum number N=1.
There are some indications, both experimental and theoretical, that the Roper resonance is actually two very closely spaced P11 pion-nucleon states.

Contents
Discovery
Decay
References
Composition
See also

Discovery


The Roper resonance was discovered in 1963 by a computer fit of particle-scattering theory to large amounts of pion-nucleon scattering data. The analysis was done on computers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for Ph.D. thesis work of L. David Roper at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the direction of Prof. Bernard Taub Feld at MIT and Dr. Michael J. Moravcsik at LLNL. The computer code was developed by Richard Allen Arndt and Robert M. Wright.

Decay


Because of the relatively large full width, which according to uncertainty principle means a shorter lifetime, the Roper resonance decays into a system consisting of other hadrons with a total mass less than the mass of the original state. The Roper resonance decays most of the time via the strong force into an ordinary nucleon plus a pion, nucleon plus two pions, or Δ plus a pion.

References


"Evidence for a P11 Pion-Nucleon Resonance at 556 MeV", L. D. Roper, Phys. Rev. Letters 12, 340 (1964)
"The Development of Pion‑Nucleon Scattering Analysis: A Personal History of Discovery" by R. Gordon Moorhouse and L. David Roper
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Composition


Particle Symbol Makeup Average PDG
mass MeV/c2
S C B Full width
MeV/c2
Decays to
P11(1440) 'P11+' 'uud' 1440 0 0 0 200-450 See Particle Data Booklet
P11(1440) 'P11-' 'udd' 1440 0 0 0 200-450 See Particle Data Booklet

See also



List of baryons

particle physics

quark model

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