https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2011-11016-5
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Photoproduction of 
mesons on nuclei near the production threshold
1
II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany
3
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
4
Kernfysisch Versneller Institut, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Physikalisches Institut, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
* e-mail: Mariana.Nanova@physik.uni-giessen.de
Received:
24
August
2010
Accepted:
15
December
2010
Published online:
1
February
2011
The photoproduction of mesons on LH2 , C and Nb has been measured for incident photon energies from 900 to 1300MeV using the CB/TAPS detector at ELSA. The lineshape does not show any significant difference between the LH2 and the Nb targets. The experiment was motivated by transport calculations that predicted a sensitivity of the lineshape to in-medium modifications near the production threshold on a free nucleon of 
MeV. A comparison with recent calculations is given.
© SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011
