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CLAS Electro-Omega Production

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OSTI ID:801490

Electroproduction of omega (783) mesons from a proton target has been measured at CLAS in a search for so called ''missing'' baryon resonances. Scattered electrons were measured in coincidence with the recoiling proton and a pi{sup +} from the omega decay. Missing mass techniques were applied to identify the outgoing omega and to reduce the contributions of rho (770) and 2 pi final states. The resulting ep missing mass distributions clearing show an omega peak superimposed on a predominantly 3-pion phase space. Preliminary analysis indicates that t distributions monotonically decrease for W>2 GeV, as expected from pi-exchange and diffractive processes but for 1.8 GeV<W<2 GeV the distributions are non monotonically decreasing.

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84ER40150
OSTI ID:
801490
Report Number(s):
JLAB-PHY-00-42; DOE/ER/40150-2174
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English