Eur. Phys. J. A 13, 493-499 (2002)
DOI: 10.1140/epja/iepja1345
Threshold enhancement in
photoproduction from
and
V. Hejny1, J. Weiß2, P. Achenbach3, J. Ahrens3, J.R.M. Annand4, R. Beck3, M. Kotulla2, B. Krusche5, V. Kuhr6, R. Leukel3, I.J.D. MacGregor4, V. Metag2, R. Novotny2, V. Olmos de León3, F. Rambo6, A. Schmidt3, M. Schumacher6, U. Siodlaczek7, H. Ströher1, F. Wissmann6 and M. Wolf 2
1 Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425, Jülich, Germany
2 II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Gießen, D-35392 Gießen, Germany
3 Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G128QQ, UK
5 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Ch-4056 Basel, Switzerland
6 II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Göttingen, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
7 Physikalisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
Bernd.Krusche@unibas.ch
(Received: 23 November 2001 / Revised version: 27 January 2002 Communicated by M. Garçon)
Abstract
The photoproduction of
-mesons from
2H and
has been studied for energies close to the production thresholds.
The experiments were carried out with the tagged photon beam of
the Mainz MAMI accelerator. The
-mesons were detected via their
two photon decays with the electromagnetic calorimeter TAPS. Total cross-sections, angular and momentum distributions of the
-mesons
have been determined for both reactions. The total cross-sections in the threshold region show a large enhancement over the
predictions
of a participant-spectator model, indicating significant final-state
interaction effects. The results are compared to recent model calculations
taking into account nucleon-nucleon and nucleon-
final-state interaction
effects on different levels of sophistication.
13.60.Le - Meson production.
14.40.Aq -


25.20.Lj - Photoproduction reactions.
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