Test of low-energy theorems for p(gamma(pol.),pi0)p in the threshold region.

Schmidt, A. ; Achenbach, P. ; Ahrens, J. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 87 (2001) 232501, 2001.
Inspire Record 556802 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.31362

The photon asymmetry in the reaction p(\vec{\gamma},\pi^{0})p close to threshold has been measured for the first time with the photon spectrometer TAPS using linearly polarized photons from the tagged-photon facility at the Mainz Microtron MAMI. The total and differential cross sections were also measured simultaneously with the photon asymmetry. This allowed determination of the S-wave and all three P-wave amplitudes. The low-energy theorems based on the parameter-free third-order calculations of heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory for P1 and P2 agree with the experimental values.

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Polarized photon beam.