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Title: Photoproduction of η mesons off the proton for 1.2 < Eγ < 4.7GeV using CLAS at Jefferson Laboratory

Journal Article · · Physical Review C
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Photoproduction cross sections are reported for the reaction γ p → p η using energy-tagged photons and the CLAS spectrometer at Jefferson Laboratory. The η mesons are detected in their dominant charged decay mode, η → π + π - π0, and results on differential cross sections are presented for incident photon energies between 1.2 and 4.7 GeV. These new η photoproduction data are consistent with earlier CLAS results but extend the energy range beyond the nucleon resonance region into the Regge regime. The normalized angular distributions are also compared with the experimental results from several other experiments, and with predictions of η -MAID 2018 and the latest solution of the Bonn-Gatchina coupled-channel analysis. Differential cross sections d σ / d t are presented for incident photon energies E γ > 2.9 GeV ( W > 2.5 GeV ), and compared with predictions which are based on Regge trajectories exchange in the t -channel (Regge models). The data confirm the expected dominance of ρ , ω vector-meson exchange in an analysis by the Joint Physics Analysis Center.

Research Organization:
Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (CEA); Chilean Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT); United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council; Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA)
Contributing Organization:
CLAS Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-07ER41528; FG02-92ER40735; AC05-06OR23177; AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1735831
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1781686; OSTI ID: 1787253
Report Number(s):
JLAB-PHY-20-3201; DOE/OR/23177-4979; arXiv:2006.01361; TRN: US2205258
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Vol. 102, Issue 6; ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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