Published July 11, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Photoproduction of Θ+

  • 1. Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, 567-0047, Mihogaoka, Osaka (Japan)
  • 2. Nuclear physics and Radiation Technology Institute (NuRI), Pusan National University, Busan 609-735 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735 (Korea, Republic of)

Description

We study photoproduction of Θ+ for several cases of JP of Θ+. It is shown that in an effective lagrangian approach, the contact term of γKNΘ+ plays a dominant role for charge-exchange processes, especially for the case of J = 3/2. Consequently, we have found a large asymmetry between the production rates from the proton and neutron targets; σ(γn → K-Θ+) >> σ(γp → K-bar0Θ+). The resulting total cross sections are of order few nb or less for the case of the proton target, which is compatible with the upper bound estimated by the recent results of the CLAS experiment. We also point out that the strong forward peak in angular distributions would make the observation of Θ+ very sensitive to experimental setups

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
842
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 474-476
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
17. international conference on particles and nuclei
Dates
23-30 Oct 2005
Place
Santa Fe, NM (United States)

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(c) 2006 American Institute of Physics