Precision Measurement of the Eta Radiative Decay Width via the Primakoff Effect with GlueX
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
The GlueX detector in the experimental Hall-D at Jefferson Lab provides a unique capability to perform a measurement of the eta to gamma gamma decay width via the Primakoff effect with the precision significantly better than all existing collider and Primakoff results. The experiment will measure differential cross sections of eta mesons at forward angles on a liquid hydrogen and helium targets using a beam of tagged photons, which will be used for the extraction of the decay width. The measurement is essential for the determination of the fundamental properties such as the ratios of the light quark masses and the eta eta-prime mixing angle, and will provide an important test of chiral symmetry breaking in QCD. The experimental results will also allow to significantly reduce uncertainties on partial widths of all other eta decays. We will give an overview the PrimEx-D physics program and experimental setup.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-06OR23177
- OSTI ID:
- 1985979
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-PHY-17-2699; DOE/OR/23177-6477
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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