Title
Beam–target helicity asymmetry E in K+Σ− photoproduction on the neutron
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-10-2020
Abstract
We report a measurement of a beam–target double-polarisation observable (E) for the γ→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.
Recommended Citation
Zachariou, N.; Watts, D. P.; Fleming, J.; Sarantsev, A. V.; Nikonov, V. A.; D'Angelo, A.; Bashkanov, M.; Hanretty, C.; Kageya, T.; Klein, F. J.; Lowry, M.; Lu, H.; Sandorfi, A.; Wei, X.; Zonta, I.; Adhikari, K. P.; Adhikari, S.; Amaryan, M. J.; Angelini, G.; Asryan, G.; Atac, H.; Barion, L.; Bass, C.; Battaglieri, M.; Bedlinskiy, I.; Benmokhtar, F.; Bianconi, A.; Biselli, A. S.; Bossù, F.; and Hicks, K., "Beam–target helicity asymmetry E in K+Σ− photoproduction on the neutron" (2020). Physics & Astronomy Open Access Publications. 161.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/physics-astronomy-oapub/161