Proposal to study some rare pion and kaon induced reactions using the 40'' rapid cycling system

The 40'' hydrogen bubble chamber is used in a triggered mode to obtain a ten to thirty times increase over current data in a few specific reactions with incident pi /sup +/ and K/sup -/ mesons. These reactions are pi /sup +/p yields DELTA /sup ++/K/sup +/K/sup -/, DELTA /sup ++/pp, ppn, p K/sup +/K/sup o/, Y/sup */K/sup +/ pi /sup o/, /0 yields Search for the 0(1820) yields Yg yields Y/sup */ pi /sup -/. This will allow a study of the mre decay modes of meson resonances which one can combine with the high statistics study of pion decays. There will be many quasi two-body channels where production characteristics and joint decay correlations will give further insights into the dynamics of strong interactions. (auth