Exclusive single pion electroproduction off the proton in the invariant mass range up to 2 GeV and at Q2$$<$$5GeV2 with CLAS.
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States)
Exclusive meson electroproduction off protons is a powerful tool to probe the effective degrees of freedom in excited nucleon states at the varying distance scale where the transition from the contributions of both quark core and meson-baryon cloud to the quark core dominance. During the past decade, the CLAS collaboration has executed a broad experimental program to study the excited states of the proton using polarized electron beam and (un)polarized proton targets. The measurements covered a broad kinematic range in the invariant mass W and photon virtuality Q2 with nearly full coverage in solid angles in the hadronic CMSystem. As results, several low-lying nucleon resonance states have been explored, such as ?(1230)3/2+, N(1440)1/2+, N(1520)3/2-, and N(1535)1/2- in particular for W<1.6 GeV. In this talk, we present preliminary cross-sections and helicity amplitudes of the reaction g*p?npi+ at higher W (1.6 to 2.0 GeV). Some of the excited states with isospin 1/2 and with masses near 1.7 GeV can be accessed in single npi+ production as there are no isospin 3/2 states present in this mass range with the same spin-parity assignments. These are the N(1675)5/2-, N(1680)5/2+, and N(1710)1/2+ states. We will briefly discuss preliminary results for these states.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-06OR23177
- OSTI ID:
- 1963409
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-PHY-14-2054; DOE/OR/23177-5861
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 4th Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan, Waikoloa, HI, October 7-11, 2014
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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