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Title: Beam–target helicity asymmetry E in K+Σ- photoproduction on the neutron

Journal Article · · Physics Letters B
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We report a measurement of a beam–target double-polarisation observable ( E ) for the $$\vec γ \vec n$$(p) → K+Σ-(p) reaction. The data were obtained impinging the circularly-polarised energy-tagged photon beam of Hall B at Jefferson Lab on a longitudinally-polarised frozen-spin hydrogen deuteride (HD) nuclear target. The E observable for an effective neutron target was determined for centre-of-mass energies 1.70 ≤ W ≤ 2.30 GeV, with reaction products detected over a wide angular acceptance by the CLAS spectrometer. These new double-polarisation data give unique constraints on the strange decays of excited neutron states. Inclusion of the new data within the Bonn-Gatchina theoretical model results in significant changes for the extracted photocouplings of a number of established nucleon resonances. Possible improvements in the PWA description of the experimental data with additional “missing” resonance states, including the N(2120)3/2- resonance, are also quantified.

Research Organization:
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) (United Kingdom); Russian Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Chilean Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT); Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (CEA); United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) (United Kingdom) Russian Science Foundation
Contributing Organization:
The CLAS Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0016583; AC05-06OR23177; ST/P004385/2; ST/T002077/1; ST/L00478X/2; RSF16-12-10267; AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1644145
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1646831; OSTI ID: 1726245; OSTI ID: 1787252; OSTI ID: 1798701
Report Number(s):
JLAB-PHY-20-3168; DOE-OR-23177-4947; TRN: US2205092
Journal Information:
Physics Letters B, Vol. 808; ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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