Photoproduction of the f2(1270) Meson Using the CLAS Detector

Autor: V. Mokeev, P. Eugenio, Vincent Mathieu, D. Heddle, R. A. Schumacher, M. Battaglieri, K. A. Griffioen, R. Paremuzyan, Laura Clark, L. Marsicano, L. Lanza, M. J. Amaryan, M Carver, G. Angelini, D. P. Watts, Gerard Gilfoyle, M. Osipenko, N. Gevorgyan, P. Lenisa, M. Contalbrigo, H. Egiyan, K. Livingston, R. Tyson, D. Sokhan, S. Stepanyan, I. J. D. MacGregor, F. X. Girod, S. Adhikari, Dustin Keller, F. Sabatié, B. McKinnon, G. Niculescu, G. Rosner, B. A. Clary, D. G. Ireland, V. Crede, D. Bulumulla, William Brooks, E. Munevar, Jie Zhang, T. B. Hayward, K. Hafidi, A. Filippi, W. Phelps, Z. E. Meziani, B. Yale, Aditya R. Khanal, L. Venturelli, M. Ehrhart, M. Khandaker, E. L. Isupov, Friedrich Klein, Alessandro Rizzo, A. Kim, Michael Paolone, S. Boiarinov, Andrea Bianconi, G. Ciullo, A. Pilloni, C. W. Kim, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, Y. Prok, C. E. Hyde, I. Bedlinskiy, A. El Alaoui, N. A. Baltzell, F. Bossu, T. Chetry, D. S. Carman, Nicholas Zachariou, H. S. Jo, U. Shrestha, J. C. Carvajal, H. Voskanyan, Z. W. Zhao, Fatiha Benmokhtar, Nikos Sparveris, X. Wei, W. J. Briscoe, O. Soto, V. Mascagna, Maxime Defurne, M. Holtrop, S. Joosten, S. Niccolai, D. Protopopescu, E. Voutier, Luciano Pappalardo, A. Movsisyan, R. De Vita, H. Hakobyan, O. Pogorelko, S. Strauch, J. Ritman, J. Rowley, A. I. Ostrovidov, P. Chatagnon, K. Wei, S. Diehl, C. Salgado, S. Fegan, H. Atac, Volker D. Burkert, C. Munoz Camacho, Eugene Pasyuk, A. S. Biselli, G. Gavalian, V. P. Kubarovsky, Krishna Neupane, M. Ripani, M. Hattawy, K. Hicks, N. Dashyan, Michael Dugger, Yordanka Ilieva, L. Barion, Barry Ritchie, R. Dupre, D. Marchand, M. Ungaro, G. V. Fedotov, Q. Huang, K. P. Adhikari, K. Joo, D. G. Jenkins, M. Leali, Axel Schmidt, I. I. Strakovsky, P. Nadel-Turonski, A. Deur, Mark W. Bondi, M. E. McCracken, N. Tyler, C. Djalali, A. D'Angelo, L. El Fassi, A. Kripko, Y. G. Sharabian, P. L. Cole
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Physical Review Letters. 126
ISSN: 1079-7114
0031-9007
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.082002
Popis: The quark structure of the f2(1270) meson has, for many years, been assumed to be a pure quark-antiquark (qq¯) resonance with quantum numbers JPC=2++. Recently, it was proposed that the f2(1270) is a molecular state made from the attractive interaction of two ρ mesons. Such a state would be expected to decay strongly to final states with charged pions due to the dominant decay ρ→π+π-, whereas decay to two neutral pions would likely be suppressed. Here, we measure for the first time the reaction γp→π0π0p, using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer detector at Jefferson Lab for incident beam energies between 3.6 and 5.4 GeV. Differential cross sections, dσ/dt, for f2(1270) photoproduction are extracted with good precision due to low backgrounds and are compared to theoretical calculations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE