Beam-target helicity asymmetry for γ→n→→π−p in the N*resonance region

Ho, D. et al. (2017) Beam-target helicity asymmetry for γ→n→→π−p in the N*resonance region. Physical Review Letters, 118(24), 242002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.242002)

Abstract

We report the first beam-target double-polarization asymmetries in the γ þ nðpÞ → π− þ pðpÞ reaction spanning the nucleon resonance region from invariant mass W ¼ 1500 to 2300 MeV. Circularly polarized photons and longitudinally polarized deuterons in solid hydrogen deuteride (HD) have been used with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Lab. The exclusive final state has been extracted using three very different analyses that show excellent agreement, and these have been used to deduce the E polarization observable for an effective neutron target. These results have been incorporated into new partial wave analyses and have led to significant revisions for several γnN* resonance photocouplings.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Murdoch, Mr Gavin and Sokhan, Dr Daria and McKinnon, Dr Bryan and Ireland, Professor David and Clark, Ms Louise and Livingston, Dr Kenneth and MacGregor, Professor Douglas and Fegan, Mr Stuart and Montgomery, Dr Rachel and Glazier, Dr Derek and Rosner, Professor Guenther and Protopopescu, Dr Dan
• Authors: Ho, D., Peng, P., Bass, C., Collins, P., D’Angelo, A., Deur, A., Fleming, J., Hanretty, C., Kageya, T., Khandaker, M., Klein, F. J., Klempt, E., Laine, V., Lowry, M. M., Lu, H., Nepali, C., Nikonov, V. A., O’Connell, T., Sandorfi, A. M., Sarantsev, A. V., Schumacher, R. A., Strakovsky, I. I., Švarc, A., Walford, N. K., Wei, X., Whisnant, C. S., Workman, R. L., Zonta, I., Adhikari, K. P., Adikaram, D., Akbar, Z., Amaryan, M. J., Anefalos Pereira, S., Avakian, H., Ball, J., Bashkanov, M., Battaglieri, M., Batourine, V., Bedlinskiy, I., Biselli, A., Briscoe, W. J., Burkert, V. D., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Charles, G., Chetry, T., Ciullo, G., Clark, L., Colaneri, L., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Crede, V., Dashyan, N., De Sanctis, E., De Vita, R., Djalali, C., Dupre, R., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fegan, S., Fersch, R., Filippi, A., Fradi, A., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Girod, F. X., Glazier, D.I., Gleason, C., Gohn, W., Golovatch, E., Gothe, R. W., Griffioen, K. A., Guidal, M., Guo, L., Hakobyan, H., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Hicks, K., Holtrop, M., Hughes, S. M., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D.G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Isupov, E. L., Jenkins, D., Jiang, H., Jo, H. S., Joo, K., Joosten, S., Keller, D., Khachatryan, G., 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., Mineeva, T., Mokeev, V., Montgomery, R.A., Movsisyan, A., Munoz Camacho, C., Murdoch, G., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Osipenko, M., Paolone, M., Paremuzyan, R., Park, K., Pasyuk, E., Phelps, W., Pogorelko, O., Price, J. W., Procureur, S., Protopopescu, D., Ripani, M., Riser, D., Ritchie, B. G., Rizzo, A., Rosner, G., Sabatié, F., Salgado, C., Sharabian, Y. G., Skorodumina, I., Smith, G. D., Sober, D. I., Sokhan, D., Sparveris, N., Strauch, S., Tian, Y., Torayev, B., Ungaro, M., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Watts, D. P., 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: Physical Review Letters
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• ISSN: 0031-9007
• ISSN (Online): 1079-7114
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2017 American Physical Society
• First Published: First published in Physical Review Letters 1189(24):242002
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