DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2002-10085-9
Exclusive measurement of quasi-free
-photoproduction
from deuterium
J. Weiß1, P. Achenbach2, R. Beck2, V. Hejny3, V. Kleber3, M. Kotulla1, B. Krusche4, V. Kuhr5, R. Leukel2, V. Metag1, V.M. Olmos de Léon1, R.O. Owens6, F. Rambo5, A. Schmidt2, U. Siodlaczek7, H. Ströher3, F. Wissmann5 and M. Wolf1
1 II. Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, D-35392 Gießen, Germany
2 Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Johannes-Joachim-Becher-Weg 45, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
3 Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
4 Department für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
5 II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Bunsenstr. 7-9, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
6 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G128QQ, UK
7 Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
Bernd.Krusche@unibas.ch
(Received: 2 September 2002 / Published online: 28 January 2003)
Abstract
Quasi-free photoproduction of
-mesons from the deuteron has been measured
at the tagged photon facility of the Mainz microtron MAMI with the photon
spectrometer TAPS for incident photon energies from the production threshold
at 630 MeV up to 820 MeV. In a fully exclusive measurement
-mesons and
recoil nucleons were detected in coincidence. At incident photon energies above
the production threshold on the free nucleon, where final-state interaction
effects are negligible, an almost constant ratio of
was found. At lower incident photon energies
the ratio rises due to re-scattering effects. The average ratio agrees with the
value extracted from a comparison of the inclusive
cross
section to the free-proton cross-section via a participant-spectator model
for the deuteron cross-section (
). The angular
dependence of the ratio agrees with the expected small deviation of neutron
and proton cross-section from isotropy due to the influence of the
D13(1520)-resonance. The energy dependence of the ratio in the excitation
energy range of the
S11(1535)-resonance disfavors model predictions which
try to explain this resonance as
bound state.
13.60.Le - Meson production.
25.20.Lj - Photoproduction reactions.
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