Abstract
The photoproduction of ω mesons off the proton has been studied in the reaction γp→pω using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) and the frozen-spin target in Hall B at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. For the first time, the target asymmetry T has been measured in photoproduction from the decay ω→π+π-π0, using a transversely polarized target with energies ranging from just above the reaction threshold up to 2.8 GeV. Significant nonzero values are observed for these asymmetries, reaching about 30-40% in the third-resonance region. New measurements for the photon-beam asymmetry Σ are also presented, which agree well with previous CLAS results and extend the world database up to 2.1 GeV. These data and additional ω photoproduction observables from CLAS were included in a partial-wave analysis within the Bonn-Gatchina framework. Significant contributions from s-channel resonance production were found in addition to t-channel exchange processes.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 055202 |
Journal | Physical Review C |
Volume | 97 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 4 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Funding
The authors thank the technical staff at Jefferson Lab and at all the participating institutions for their invaluable contributions to the success of the experiment. This material is based upon work supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177. The group at Florida State University acknowledges additional support from the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-FG02-92ER40735. This work was also supported by the US National Science Foundation, the State Committee of Science of Republic of Armenia, the Chilean Comisión Nacional de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the French Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), the United Kingdom's Science and Technology Facilities Council, and the National Research Foundation of Korea, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (SFB/TR110), and the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) under Grant No. 16-12-10267.