Photoproduction of eta mesons off protons for 0.75-GeV < E(gamma) < 3-GeV.

The CB-ELSA collaboration Crede, Volker ; Bartholomy, Olivia ; Anisovich, A. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 94 (2005) 012004, 2005.
Inspire Record 633776 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.41904

Total and differential cross sections for the reaction p(gamma, eta)p have been measured for photon energies in the range from 750 MeV to 3 GeV. The low-energy data are dominated by the S11 wave which has two poles in the energy region below 2 GeV. Eleven nucleon resonances are observed in their decay into p eta. At medium energies we find evidence for a new resonance N(2070)D15 with (mass, width) = (2068+-22, 295+-40) MeV. At photon energies above 1.5 GeV, a strong peak in forward direction develops, signalling the exchange of vector mesons in the t channel.

10 data tables

Total cross section determined by summing the angular bins and extrapolating outside the angular range of the experiment.

Differential cross section as a function of c.m. angle for the photon energy range 750 to 950 GeV.

Differential cross section as a function of c.m. angle for the photon energy range 950 to 1150 GeV.

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