Beam-spin asymmetry Σ for Σ− hyperon photoproduction off the neutron

Zachariou, N. et al. (2022) Beam-spin asymmetry Σ for Σ− hyperon photoproduction off the neutron. Physics Letters B, 827, 136985. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2022.136985)

Abstract

We report a new measurement of the beam-spin asymmetry, Σ, for the γ n → K +Σ−reaction using quasi-free neutrons in a liquid-deuterium target. The new dataset includes data at previously unmeasured photon energy and angular ranges, thereby providing new constraints on partial wave analyses used to extract properties of the excited nucleon states. The experimental data were obtained using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS), housed in Hall B of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab). The CLAS detector measured reaction products from a liquid-deuterium target produced by an energy-tagged, linearly polarised photon beam with energies in the range 1.1 to 2.3 GeV. Predictions from an isobar model indicate strong sensitivity to N(1720)3/2+, ∆(1900)1/2−, and N(1895)1/2−, which corroborates results from a recent combined analysis of all KΣ channels. When our data are incorporated in the fits of partial-wave analyses, one observes significant changes in γ-n couplings of resonances which have small branching ratios to the πN channel.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: This work has been supported by the U.K. Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/P004385/2, ST/T002077/1, and ST/L00478X/2) grants, as well as by the Czech Science Foundation GACR grant 19-19640S. We also acknowledge the outstanding efforts of the staff of the Accelerator and Physics Divisions at Jefferson Lab that made this experiment possible. The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) operated the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility for the United States Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-06OR23177. Further support was provided by the National Science Foundation, the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, the Chilean Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the French Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, and the National Research Foundation of Korea.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Sokhan, Dr Daria and McKinnon, Dr Bryan and Wishart, Robert and Tyson, Mr Richard and Ireland, Professor David and Clark, Ms Louise and Livingston, Dr Kenneth and MacGregor, Professor Douglas and Rosner, Professor Guenther
• Authors: Zachariou, N., Munevar, E., Berman, B.L., Bydžovský, P., Cieplý, A., Feldman, G., Ilieva, Y., Nadel-Turonski, P., Skoupil, D., Sarantsev, A.V., Watts, D.P., Amaryan, M.J., Angelini, G., Armstrong, W.R., Atac, H., Avakian, H., Barion, L., Bashkanov, M., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Benmokhtar, F., Bianconi, A., Biondo, L., Biselli, A.S., Bondi, M., Bossù, F., Boiarinov, S., Briscoe, W.J., Brooks, W.K., Bulumulla, D., Burkert, V.D., Carman, D.S., Carvajal, J.C., Celentano, A., Chatagnon, P., Chetry, T., Ciullo, G., Clark, L., Cole, P.L., Contalbrigo, M., Costantini, G., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., Defurne, M., Deur, A., Diehl, S., Djalali, C., Dupre, R., Dugger, M., Egiyan, H., Ehrhart, M., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fegan, S., Filippi, A., Fradi, A., Gavalian, G., Gilfoyle, G.P., Girod, F.X., Gleason, C., Golubenko, A.A., Gothe, R.W., Griffioen, K.A., Guidal, M., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hattawy, M., Hayward, T.B., Heddle, D., Hicks, K., Hobart, A., Holtrop, M., Ireland, D.G., Isupov, E.L., Jenkins, D., Jo, H.S., Joo, K., Keller, D., Khanal, A., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Klein, F.J., Kripko, A., Kubarovsky, V., Lanza, L., Leali, M., Livingston, K., MacGregor, I.D.G., Marchand, D., Markov, N., Marsicano, L., Mascagna, V., McKinnon, B., Migliorati, S., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Munoz Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Neupane, K., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., O'Connell, T.R., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A.I., Pandey, P., Paolone, M., Pappalardo, L.L., Paremuzyan, R., Pasyuk, E., Phelps, W., Pogorelko, O., Price, J.W., Prok, Y., Raue, B.A., Ripani, M., Ritman, J., Rizzo, A., Rosner, G., Rowley, J., Sabatie, F., Salgado, C., Schmidt, A., Schumacher, R.A., Sharabian, Y.G., Shirokov, E.V., Shrestha, U., Sokhan, D., Soto, O., Sparveris, N., Stepanyan, S., Stoler, P., Strakovsky, I.I., Strauch, S., Tyson, R., Ungaro, M., Venturelli, L., Voskanyan, H., Vossen, A., Voutier, E., Wei, K., Wei, X., Wishart, R., Wood, M.H., Yale, B., 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
• ISSN (Online): 1873-2445
• Published Online: 07 March 2022
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2022 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Physics Letters B 827:136985
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License