Artigo Acesso aberto

Polarization measurements in neutral pion photoproduction

2002; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 66; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevc.66.034614

ISSN

1538-4497

Autores

K. Wijesooriya, Andrei Afanasev, M. Amarian, K. Aniol, Saïda Ben Becher, K. Benslama, L. Bimbot, P. Bosted, E. J. Brash, J. R. Calarco, Z. Chai, C. C. Chang, Tung‐Zong Chang, J.-P. Chen, Seonho Choi, E. Chudakov, S. Churchwell, D. Crovelli, Sonja Dieterich, S. Dumalski, D. Dutta, M. Epstein, K. Fissum, B. Fox, S. Frullani, H. Gao, J. Gao, F. Garibaldi, O. Gayou, R. Gilman, A. Glamazdin, C. Glashausser, J. Gómez, V. Gorbenko, O. Hansen, R. J. Holt, Jordan Hovdebo, G. M. Huber, C. W. de Jager, X. Jiang, Catherine Jones, M. Jones, James J. Kelly, E. Kinney, Edgar E. Kooijman, G. Kumbartzki, C. C. Kuo, J. J. LeRose, M. Liang, R. Lindgren, N. Liyanage, S. Malov, D. J. Margaziotis, P. Markowitz, K. McCormick, D. Meekins, Z.-E. Meziani, R. Michaels, Jason W. Mitchell, L. Morand, C. F. Perdrisat, R. Pomatsalyuk, V. Punjabi, R. D. Ransome, R. Roché, M. Rvachev, A. Saha, A. Sarty, Eva C. Schulte, Daniel T. Simon, S. Strauch, R. Suleiman, L. Todor, P. E. Ulmer, G. M. Urciuoli, B. Wojtsekhowski, F. Xiong, W. Xu,

Tópico(s)

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

Resumo

We present measurements of the recoil proton polarization for the 1H(→γ,→p)π0 reaction for θπc.m.=60°–135° and for photon energies up to 4.1 GeV. These are the first data in this reaction for polarization transfer with circularly polarized photons. Various theoretical models are compared with the results. No evidence for hadron helicity conservation is observed. Models that employ factorization are not favored. It appears from the strong angular dependence of the induced polarization at photon energies of 2.5 and 3.1 GeV that a relatively high spin resonance or background amplitude might exist in this energy region.Received 9 May 2002DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.66.034614©2002 American Physical Society

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