Photon beam asymmetry Σ in the reaction γ→p → pω for Eγ = 1.152 to 1.876 GeV

Collins, P. et al. (2017) Photon beam asymmetry Σ in the reaction γ→p → pω for Eγ = 1.152 to 1.876 GeV. Physics Letters B, 773, pp. 112-120. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.08.015)

Abstract

Photon beam asymmetry Σ measurements for ω photoproduction in the reaction γ→p→ωp are reported for photon energies from 1.152 to 1.876 GeV. Data were taken using a linearly-polarized tagged photon beam, a cryogenic hydrogen target, and the CLAS spectrometer in Hall B at Jefferson Lab. The measurements obtained markedly increase the size of the database for this observable, extend coverage to higher energies, and resolve discrepancies in previously published data. Comparisons of these new results with predictions from a chiral-quark-based model and from a dynamical coupled-channels model indicate the importance of interferences between t-channel meson exchange and s- and u-channel contributions, underscoring sensitivity to the nucleon resonances included in those descriptions. Comparisons with the Bonn–Gatchina partial-wave analysis indicate the Σ data reported here help to fix the magnitudes of the interference terms between the leading amplitudes in that calculation (Pomeron exchange and the resonant portion of the JP=3/2+ partial wave), as well as the resonant portions of the smaller partial waves with JP=1/2−, 3/2−, and 5/2+.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Sokhan, Dr Daria and McKinnon, Dr Bryan and Ireland, Professor David and Clark, Ms Louise and Livingston, Dr Kenneth and MacGregor, Professor Douglas and Montgomery, Dr Rachel and Glazier, Dr Derek and Rosner, Professor Guenther and Protopopescu, Dr Dan
• Authors: Collins, P., Ritchie, B.G., Dugger, M., Klein, F.J., Anisovich, A.V., Klempt, E., Nikonov, V.A., Sarantsev, A., Adhikari, K.P., Adhikari, S., Adikaram, D., Akbar, Z., Anefalos Pereira, S., Avakian, H., Ball, J., Baltzell, N.A., Bashkanov, M., Battaglieri, M., Batourine, V., Bedlinskiy, I., Biselli, A.S., Boiarinov, S., Briscoe, W.J., Brooks, W.K., Burkert, V.D., Cao, F. T., Cao, T., Carman, D.S., Celentano, A., Charles, G., Chetry, T., Ciullo, G., Clark, L., Cole, P.L., Contalbrigo, M., Cortes, O., Crede, V., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Defurne, M., Deur, A., Djalali, C., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Filippi, A., Fleming, J.A., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G.P., Giovanetti, K.L., Girod, F.X., Glazier, D.I., Gleason, C., Golovatch, E., Gothe, R.W., Griffioen, K.A., Guidal, M., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Heddle, D., Hicks, K., Hollis, G., Holtrop, M., Hughes, S.M., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D.G., Ishkhanov, B.S., Isupov, E.L., Jenkins, D., Jiang, H., Jo, H.S., Joosten, S., Keller, D., Khachatryan, G., Khachatryan, M., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kim, W., Klein, A., Kubarovsky, V., Kuleshov, S.V., Lanza, L., Lenisa, P., Livingston, K., MacGregor, I.J.D., Markov, N., McKinnon, B., Meyer, C.A., Meziani, Z.E., Mineeva, T., Mokeev, V., Montgomery, R.A., Movsisyan, A., Munevar, E., Munoz Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Net, L.A., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A.I., Paolone, M., Paremuzyan, R., Park, K., Pasyuk, E., Phelps, W., Pisano, S., Pogorelko, O., Price, J.W., Procureur, S., Prok, Y., Protopopescu, D., Raue, B.A., Ripani, M., Rizzo, A., Rosner, G., Sabatié, F., Salgado, C., Schumacher, R.A., Sharabian, Y.G., Simonyan, A., Skorodumina, I., Smith, G.D., Sober, D.I., Sokhan, D., Sparveris, N., Stankovic, I., Stepanyan, S., Strakovsky, I.I., Strauch, S., Taiuti, M., Ungaro, M., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Walford, N.K., Watts, D.P., Wei, X., Wood, M.H., Zachariou, N., Zhang, J., and Zhao, Z.W.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Physics Letters B
• Publisher: Elsevier BV
• ISSN: 0370-2693
• Published Online: 18 August 2017
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2017 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Physics Letters B 773: 112-120
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons license