The photoproduction of eta-mesons from 2H and 4He 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 eta-mesons were detected via their two photon decays with the electromagnetic calorimeter TAPS. Total cross sections, angular and momentum distributions of the eta-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-eta final state interaction effects on different levels of sophistication.
Total inclusive photoproduction cross sections. Statistical errors only.
Angular distributions of ETA mesons from the Deuterium target in the photon-nucleus cm system. Statistical errors only.
Angular distributions of ETA mesons from the Deuterium target in the photon-nucleus cm system. Statistical errors only.
The reported data are given for the mean angles measured rather than for the central angles. The data are normalized to the most recent Evaluated Nuclear Data File evaluated angle-integrated elastic-scattering cross section and refitted with a Legendre polynomial expansion.
Measured values of the N-P elastic scattering angular distributions. Data are normalized to the Breit-Hopkins total elastic cross section after radiative capture correction.
The reaction ${n} {p} \to {p} {p} \pi^{-}$ has been studied in a kinematically complete measurement with a large acceptance time-of-flight spectrometer for incident neutron energies between threshold and 570 MeV. The proton-proton invariant mass distributions show a strong enhancement due to the pp($^{1}{S}_{0}$) final state interaction. A large anisotropy was found in the pion angular distributions in contrast to the reaction ${p}{p} \to {p}{p} \pi^{0}$. At small energies, a large forward/backward asymmetry has been observed. From the measured integrated cross section $\sigma({n}{p} \to {\rm p}{p} \pi^{-})$, the isoscalar cross section $\sigma_{01}$ has been extracted. Its energy dependence indicates that mainly partial waves with Sp final states contribute. Note: Due to a coding error, the differential cross sections ${d \sigma}/{d M_{pp}}$ as shown in Fig. 9 are too small by a factor of two, and inn Table 3 the differential cross sections ${d \sigma}/{d \Omega_{\pi}^{*}}$ are too large by a factor of $10/2\pi$. The integrated cross sections and all conclusions remain unchanged. A corresponding erratum has been submitted and accepted by European Physics Journal.
Differential cross sections DSIG/DOMEGA for excusive PI- production in N P interactions at incident kinetic energies 315, 345 and 375 Mev after background subtraction and efficiency correction.
Differential cross sections DSIG/DOMEGA for exclusive PI- production in N Pinteractions at incident kinetic energies 405, 435 and 465 Mev after background subtraction and efficiency correction.
Differential cross sections DSIG/DOMEGA for exclusive PI- production in N Pinteractions at incident kinetic energies 495, 525 and 550 Mev after background subtraction and efficiency correction.
The cross section for the production of $\omega$ mesons in proton-proton collisions has been measured in a previously unexplored region of incident energies. Cross sections were extracted at 92 MeV and 173 MeV excess energy, respectively. The angular distribution of the $\omega$ at $\epsilon$=173 MeV is strongly anisotropic, demonstrating the importance of partial waves beyond pure s-wave production at this energy.
Measured cross sections for omega production.
Angular distribution of the OMEGA in the overall centre-of-momentum frame. Statistical error only.
A precision measurement of absolute pi+p and pi-p elastic differential cross sections at incident pion laboratory kinetic energies from T_pi= 141.15 to 267.3 MeV is described. Data were obtained detecting the scattered pion and recoil proton in coincidence at 12 laboratory pion angles from 55 to 155 degrees for pi+p, and six angles from 60 to 155 degrees for pi-p. Single arm measurements were also obtained for pi+p energies up to 218.1 MeV, with the scattered pi+ detected at six angles from 20 to 70 degrees. A flat-walled, super-cooled liquid hydrogen target as well as solid CH2 targets were used. The data are characterized by small uncertainties, ~1-2% statistical and ~1-1.5% normalization. The reliability of the cross section results was ensured by carrying out the measurements under a variety of experimental conditions to identify and quantify the sources of instrumental uncertainty. Our lowest and highest energy data are consistent with overlapping results from TRIUMF and LAMPF. In general, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute SM95 partial wave analysis solution describes our data well, but the older Karlsruhe-Helsinki PWA solution KH80 does not.
Centre of mass absolute differential cross sections at pion kinetic energy 141.15 MeV using the liquid H2 target and single arm pion detection. There is an additional systematic error of 1.1 PCT for PI+ beams which is not included in the errors shown in the table.
Centre of mass absolute differential cross sections at pion kinetic energy 141.15 MeV using the liquid H2 target and two arm pion detection. There is an additional systematic error of 1.3 PCT for PI+ beams which is not included in the errors shown in the table.
Centre of mass absolute differential cross sections at pion kinetic energy 141.15 MeV using the liquid H2 target and two arm pion detection. There is an additional systematic error of 1.3 PCT (1.6 PCT) for PI+ (PI-) beams which is not included in the errors shown in the table.
We present measurements of the differential and total cross sections and the Λ polarization for the reaction K−p→ηΛ from threshold to pK−=770MeV/c, with much better precision than previous measurements. Our cross-section data show a remarkable similarity to the SU(3) flavor-related π−p→ηn cross-section results. The reaction K−p→ηΛ at threshold is dominated by formation of the intermediate Λ(1670)12− state.
Total cross section measurement for K- P --> ETA LAMBDA. Errors shown are statistical only.
Differential cross sections DSIG/DOMEGA for K- P --> ETA LAMBDA. Errors shown are statistical only.
Differential cross sections DSIG/DOMEGA for K- P --> ETA LAMBDA. Errors shown are statistical only.
The present data support a large anisotropy in accordance with phase shift predictions and in contrast to another recent experiment.
Measured deuteron angular distribution in the c.m. system. The errors shown are statistical only and there is an additional 10 PCT systematic uncertainty on the overall normalisation.
Legendre polynomial coefficients from a second order and fourth order fit.
Total cross section from second order fit.
The exclusive production cross sections for $\omega$ and $\phi$ mesons have been measured in proton-proton reactions at $p_{lab}=3.67$ GeV/c. The observed $\phi/\omega$ cross section ratio is $(3.8\pm0.2^{+1.2}_{-0.9})\times 10^{-3}$. After phase space corrections, this ratio is enhanced by about an order of magnitude relative to naive predictions based upon the Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka (OZI) rule, in comparison to an enhancement by a factor $\sim 3$ previously observed at higher beam momenta. The modest increase of this enhancement near the production threshold is compared to the much larger increase of the $\phi/\omega$ ratio observed in specific channels of $\bar pp$ annihilation experiments. Furthermore, differential cross section results are also presented which indicate that although the $\phi$ meson is predominantly produced from a $^3P_1$ proton-proton entrance channel, other partial waves contribute significantly to the production mechanism at this beam momentum.
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Differential cross section of OMEGA production.
Differential cross section of PHI production.
First data on coherent threshold \pi^0 electroproduction from the deuteron taken by the A1 Collaboration at the Mainz Microtron MAMI are presented. At a four-momentum transfer of q^2=-0.1 GeV^2/c^2 the full solid angle was covered up to a center-of-mass energy of 4 MeV above threshold. By means of a Rosenbluth separation the longitudinal threshold s wave multipole and an upper limit for the transverse threshold s wave multipole could be extracted and compared to predictions of Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory.
Differential cross-section d(SIG(PI0))/d(OMEGA) is related to electron-deuteron one by the relation as follows: d(SIG)/d(OMEGA_e)/d(E_e)/d(OMEGA) = Gamma *d(SIG)/d(OMEGA), where the virtual photon flux is give by: Gamma = (alpha/2*pi**2) * (E'/E) * (k_gamma/Q2) / (1-epsilon). Here epsilon is transverse degree of polarization of the virtual photon. See article for details.
Differential cross-section d(SIG(PI0))/d(OMEGA) is related to electron-deuteron one by the relation as follows: d(SIG)/d(OMEGA_e)/d(E_e)/d(OMEGA) = Gamma *d(SIG)/d(OMEGA), where the virtual photon flux is give by: Gamma = (alpha/2*pi**2) * (E'/E) * (k_gamma/Q2) / (1-epsilon). Here epsilon is transverse degree of polarizatiuon of the virtual photon. See article for details.
Differential cross-section d(SIG(PI0))/d(OMEGA) is related to electron-deuteron one by the relation as follows: d(SIG)/d(OMEGA_e)/d(E_e)/d(OMEGA) = Gamma *d(SIG)/d(OMEGA), where the virtual photon flux is give by: Gamma = (alpha/2*pi**2) * (E'/E) * (k_gamma/Q2) / (1-epsilon). Here epsilon is transverse degree of polarizatiuon of the virtual photon. See article for details.
The ratio of the total exclusive production cross sections for $\eta\prime$ and $\eta$ mesons has been measured in the $pp$ reaction at $p_{beam}=3.67$ GeV/c. The observed $\eta\prime/\eta$ ratio is $(0.83\pm{0.11}^{+0.23}_{-0.18})\times 10^{-2}$ from which the exclusive $\eta\prime$ meson production cross section is determined to be $(1.12\pm{0.15}^{+0.42}_{-0.31})\mu b$. Differential cross section distributions have been measured. Their shape is consistent with isotropic $\eta\prime$ meson production.
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Only statistial errors.