Beam–target helicity asymmetry E in K+Σ− photoproduction on the neutron
DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135662
Abstract
We report a measurement of a beam–target double-polarisation observable (E) for the γ→n→(p)→K+Σ−(p) reaction. The data were obtained impinging the circularly-polarised energy-tagged photon beam of Hall B at Jefferson Lab on a longitudinally-polarised frozen-spin hydrogen deuteride (HD) nuclear target. The E observable for an effective neutron target was determined for centre-of-mass energies 1.70≤W≤2.30 GeV, with reaction products detected over a wide angular acceptance by the CLAS spectrometer. These new double-polarisation data give unique constraints on the strange decays of excited neutron states. Inclusion of the new data within the Bonn-Gatchina theoretical model results in significant changes for the extracted photocouplings of a number of established nucleon resonances. Possible improvements in the PWA description of the experimental data with additional “missing” resonance states, including the N(2120)3/2− resonance, are also quantified.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-30-2020
Publisher Statement
Copyright ©2020 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP3.
Recommended Citation
Zachariou, N., D. P. Watts, J. Fleming, A. Sarantsev, V. A. Nikonov, A. D’Angelo, G. Gilfoyle, et al. “Beam-Target Helicity Asymmetry E in K+Sigma(-) Photoproduction on the Neutron.” Physics Letters B 808 (September 10, 2020): 135662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135662.
