https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2007-10385-6
Regular Article - Hadron Physics
Photoproduction of η -mesons on the deuteron above S11(1535) in the presence of a narrow P11(1670) -resonance
1
Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, D-55099, Mainz, Germany
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780, Bochum, Germany
* e-mail: fix@mph.phtd.tpu.edu.ru
Received:
13
February
2007
Accepted:
18
May
2007
Published online:
12
June
2007
Incoherent photoproduction of η -mesons on the deuteron is considered. The main attention is paid to the region above the S 11(1535) -resonance where a rather narrow resonance-like structure in the total cross-section extracted for γn → ηn has been reported. The corresponding experimental results are analyzed from the phenomenological standpoint within the model containing a baryon P11 with a mass of about 1670MeV and a width less than 30MeV. This resonance was suggested in some recent works as a nonstrange member of the pentaquark antidecuplet with J P = 1/2+ . The calculation is also performed for the polarized and unpolarized angular distributions of η -mesons. In addition, we present our predictions for the cross-sections of the neutral kaons and double pion photoproduction, where the same narrow P 11(1670) -resonance is assumed to contribute through the decay into K 0Λ and πΔ configuration.
PACS: 13.60.Le Meson production – / 25.10.+s Nuclear reactions involving few-nucleon systems – / 25.20.Lj Photoproduction reactions –
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