Φ-Meson Photoproduction with Linearly Polarized Photons at Threshold Energies

Conference · Mon Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 2007 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2813792· OSTI ID:921058

Salamanca, Julian; Cole, Philip L

The observables provided by linearly-polarized photons are of interest in delineating the contributions of the various hadronic processes giving rise to vector meson photoproduction. In particular, we describe how Φ-meson production affords an incisive tool for exploring the nature of the parity exchange at threshold energies, the strangeness content of proton, as well as extracting signatures for the violation of Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka observation (OZI rule). Our goal is to study the γp → Φp reaction, with Φ → K⁺K^-, in the photon energy range of 1.7 to 2.1 GeV by using the Coherent Linear Bremsstrahlung Facility in Hall B of Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, VA. The data were collected during the g8b run in the summer of 2005.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-06OR23177
• OSTI ID: 921058
• Report Number(s): JLAB-PHY-07-759; DOE/OR/23177-0242
• Conference Information: Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Volume: 947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
BREMSSTRAHLUNG
CEBAF ACCELERATOR
ENERGY RANGE
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
PARITY
PHOTONS
PHOTOPRODUCTION
PRODUCTION
STRANGENESS
VECTOR MESONS