Published December 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

A new beam asymmetry measurement from pion photoproduction on the neutron using CLAS

  • 1. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburth (Ukraine)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Catholic University of America, Washington (United States)

Description

We present a preliminary analysis of the photon beam asymmetry observable (Σ) from the photoproduction reaction channel γn → pπ- in the invariant mass range 1.6 - 2.3 GeV. The measurement was obtained using the near-4π CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Laboratory, USA, employing a linearly polarised photon beam with an energy range 1.1 - 2.3 GeV, incident on a liquid deuterium target. The measurement will provide new data to address the poorly established neutron excitation spectrum and will greatly expand the sparse world data-set both in energy and angle. (authors)

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Journal Title
Chinese Physics. C, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
33
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 1369-1372
ISSN
1674-1137

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Notes
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