Published June 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurement of the beam asymmetry Σ in the forward direction for γ-vectorp→pπ0

  • 1. Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 (United States)
  • 2. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, RU-188350 Gatchina (Russian Federation)
  • 3. Helmholtz-Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Universitaet Bonn, D-53115 Bonn (Germany)
  • 4. KVI, 9747 AA Groningen (Netherlands)

Description

Photoproduction of neutral pions has been studied with the CBELSA/TAPS detector for photon energies between 0.92 and 1.68 GeV at the electron stretcher accelerator ELSA. The beam asymmetry Σ has been extracted for 115 deg. <θc.m.<155 deg. of the π0 meson and for θc.m.<60 deg. The new beam-asymmetry data cover the very forward region, which extend previously published data for the same reaction by our collaboration and improve the world database for photon energies above 1.5 GeV. The angular dependence of Σ shows overall good agreement with the SAID parametrization.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 065210-065210.10
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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Notes
(c) 2010 The American Physical Society
Collaborations
CBELSA/TAPS Collaboration