Measurement of the beam-helicity asymmetry in photoproduction of π0η pairs on carbon, aluminum, and lead

Autor: R. A. Miskimen, A. G. Denig, Durga Paudyal, M. Wolfes, I. Keshelashvili, Yu. A. Usov, O. Steffen, K. Spieker, P. Pedroni, Susanna Costanza, P. Aguar-Bartolomé, Concettina Sfienti, A. N. Mushkarenkov, M. Ostrick, D. G. Middleton, M. Günther, S. Garni, A. Powell, I. Supek, A. Käser, R. Beck, I. Gorodnov, M. Unverzagt, V. L. Kashevarov, F. Cividini, Roderick M. Macrae, L. V. Fil'kov, P. Adlarson, M. Oberle, S. Abt, E. J. Downie, Patrick Achenbach, D. P. Watts, S. Cherepnya, A. J. Sarty, K. Bantawa, G. M. Huber, Z. Ahmed, S. Kay, I. I. Strakovsky, T. Rostomyan, K. Livingston, S. Lutterer, B. Strandberg, S. Gardner, N. S. Borisov, C. Mullen, Guy Ron, D. I. Glazier, S. Wagner, H. J. Arends, W. J. Briscoe, A. B. Lazarev, Michaela Thiel, A. Neiser, A. Fix, A. Braghieri, Th. Strub, P. Drexler, F. Afzal, A. B. Neganov, Nicholas Zachariou, W. Gradl, J. Wettig, J. C. McGeorge, V. Sokhoyan, P. P. Martel, J. R. M. Annand, D. Hornidge, E. Mornacchi, I. J. D. MacGregor, M. Korolija, David Manley, N. K. Walford, B. Krusche, K. Altangerel, E. Rickert, M. Biroth, P. B. Otte, R. Kondratiev, G. M. Gurevich, S. N. Prakhov, Lilian Witthauer, M. Dieterle, Lena Heijkenskjöld, M. I. Ferretti Bondy, Andy Thomas, A. Thiel, D. Werthmüller, C. Collicott, M. Bashkanov
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B, Vol 802, Iss, Pp-(2020)
ISSN: 0370-2693
Popis: The beam-helicity asymmetry was measured, for the first time, in photoproduction of $\pi^{0}\eta$ pairs on carbon, aluminum, and lead, with the A2 experimental setup at MAMI. The results are compared to an earlier measurement on a free proton and to the corresponding theoretical calculations. The Mainz model is used to predict the beam-helicity asymmetry for the nuclear targets. The present results indicate that the photoproduction mechanism for $\pi^{0}\eta$ pairs on nuclei is similar to photoproduction on a free nucleon. This process is dominated by the $D_{33}$ partial wave with the $\eta\Delta(1232)$ intermediate state.
Comment: Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B (2020)
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