Search for medium modifications of the rho meson

Nasseripour, R. et al. (2007) Search for medium modifications of the rho meson. Physical Review Letters, 99(26), 262302. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.262302) (PMID:18233570)

Abstract

The photoproduction of vector mesons on various nuclei has been studied using the CLAS detector at Jefferson Laboratory. The vector mesons, rho, omega, and varphi, are observed via their decay to e;{+}e;{-}, in order to reduce the effects of final-state interactions in the nucleus. Of particular interest are possible in-medium effects on the properties of the rho meson. The rho mass spectrum is extracted from the data on various nuclei, 2H, C, Fe, and Ti. We observe no significant mass shift and some broadening consistent with expected collisional broadening for the rho meson.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Sokhan, Dr Daria and Protopopescu, Dr Dan and McKinnon, Dr Bryan and Livingston, Dr Kenneth and Ireland, Professor David and Melone, Dr Joseph and Kellie, Dr James and Rosner, Professor Guenther
• Authors: Nasseripour, R., Wood, M.H., Djalali, C., Weygand, D.P., Tur, C., Mosel, U., Muehlich, P., Adams, G., Amaryan, M.J., Ambrozewicz, P., Anghinolfi, M., Asryan, G., Avakian, H., Bagdasaryan, H., Baillie, N., Ball, J.P., Baltzell, N.A., Barrow, S., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Bektasoglu, M., Bellis, M., Benmouna, N., Berman, B.L., Biselli, A.S., Blaszczyk, L., Bouchigny, S., Boiarinov, S., Bradford, R., Branford, D., Briscoe, W.J., Brooks, W.K., Bultmann, S., Burkert, V.D., Butuceanu, C., Calarco, J.R., Careccia, S.L., Carman, D.S., Carnahan, B., Casey, L., Chen, S., Cole, P.L., Collins, P., Coltharp, P., Crabb, D., Crannell, H., Crede, V., Cummings, J.P., Dashyan, N., De Masi, R., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Degtyarenko, P.V., Denizli, H., Dennis, L., Deur, A., Dharmawardane, K.V., Dickson, R., Dodge, G.E., Doughty, D., Dugger, M., Dytman, S., Dzyubak, O.P., Egiyan, H., Egiyan, K.S., El Fassi, L., Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Feldman, G., Feuerbach, R.J., Funsten, H., Garcon, M., Gavalian, G., Gilfoyle, G.P., Giovanetti, K.L., Girod, F.X., Goetz, J.T., Gordon, C.I.O., Gothe, R.W., Griffioen, K.A., Guidal, M., Guler, N., Guo, L., Gyurjyan, V., Hadjidakis, C., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hakobyan, R.S., Hanretty, C., Hardie, J., Hersman, F.W., Hicks, K., Hleiqawi, I., Holtrop, M., Hyde-Wright, C.E., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D.G., Ishkhanov, B.S., Isupov, E.L., Ito, M.M., Jenkins, D., Jo, H.S., Johnstone, J.R., Joo, K., Juengst, H.G., Kalantarians, N., Kellie, J.D., Khandaker, M., Kim, W., Klein, A., Klein, F.J., Klimenko, A.V., Kossov, M., Krahn, Z., Kramer, L.H., Kubarovsky, V., Kuhn, J., Kuhn, S.E., Kuleshov, S.V., Lachniet, J., Laget, J.M., Langheinrich, J., Lawrence, D., Li, J., Livingston, K., Lu, H.Y., Maccormick, M., Markov, N., Mattione, P., McAleer, S., McKinnon, B., McNabb, J.W.C., Mecking, B.A., Mehrabyan, S., Melone, J.J., Mestayer, M.D., Meyer, C.A., Mibe, T., Mikhailov, K., Minehart, R., Mirazita, M., Miskimen, R., Mokeev, V., Moriya, K., Morrow, S.A., Moteabbed, M., Mueller, J., Munevar, E., Mutchler, G.S., Nadel-Turonski, P., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Niczyporuk, B.B., Niroula, M.R., Niyazov, R.A., Nozar, M., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A.I., Park, K., Pasyuk, E., Paterson, C., Anefalos Pereira, S., Pierce, J., Pivnyuk, N., Pocanic, D., Pogorelko, O., Pozdniakov, S., Preedom, B.M., Price, J.W., Prok, Y., Protopopescu, D., Raue, B.A., Riccardi, G., Ricco, G., Ripani, M., Ritchie, B.G., Ronchetti, F., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Sabatié, F., Salamanca, J., Salgado, C., Santoro, J.P., Sapunenko, V., Schumacher, R.A., Serov, V.S., Sharabian, Y.G., Sharov, D., Shvedunov, N.V., Smith, E.S., Smith, L.C., Sober, D.I., Sokhan, D., Stavinsky, A., Stepanyan, S.S., Stepanyan, S., Stokes, B.E., Stoler, P., Strakovsky, I.I., Strauch, S., Taiuti, M., Tedeschi, D.J., Tkabladze, A., Tkachenko, S., Todor, L., Ungaro, M., Vineyard, M.F., Vlassov, A.V., Watts, D.P., Weinstein, L.B., Williams, M., Wolin, E., Yegneswaran, A., Zana, L., Zhang, B., Zhang, J., Zhao, B., and Zhao, Z.W.
• Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Physical Review Letters
• Journal Abbr.: Phys. Rev. Lett.
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• ISSN: 0031-9007
• ISSN (Online): 1079-7114
• Published Online: 27 December 2007