| Title: |
First Measurement of $a^0_2(1320)$ Polarized Photoproduction Cross Section |
| Authors: |
GlueX Collaboration; Afzal, F.; Akondi, C. S.; Albrecht, M.; Amaryan, M.; Arrigo, S.; Arroyave, V.; Asaturyan, A.; Austregesilo, A.; Baldwin, Z.; Barbosa, F.; Barlow, J.; Barriga, E.; Barsotti, R.; Barton, D.; Baturin, V.; Berdnikov, V. V.; Black, T.; Boeglin, W.; Boer, M.; Briscoe, W. J.; Britton, T.; Cao, S.; Chudakov, E.; Chung, G.; Cole, P. L.; Cortes, O.; Crede, V.; Dalton, M. M.; Darulis, D.; Deur, A.; Dobbs, S.; Dolgolenko, A.; Dugger, M.; Dzhygadlo, R.; Ebersole, D.; Edo, M.; Egiyan, H.; Erbora, T.; Eugenio, P.; Fabrizi, A.; Fanelli, C.; Fang, S.; Fitches, J.; Foda, A. M.; Furletov, S.; Gan, L.; Gao, H.; Gardner, A.; Gasparian, A.; Glazier, D. I.; Gleason, C.; Goryachev, V. S.; Grube, B.; Guo, J.; Guo, L.; Hernandez, J.; Hernandez, K.; Hoffman, N. D.; Hornidge, D.; Hou, G.; Hurck, P.; Hurley, A.; Imoehl, W.; Ireland, D. G.; Ito, M. M.; Jaegle, I.; Jarvis, N. S.; Jeske, T.; Jing, M.; Jones, R. T.; Kakoyan, V.; Kalicy, G.; Khachatryan, V.; Kourkoumelis, C.; LaDuke, A.; Larin, I.; Lawrence, D.; Lersch, D. I.; Li, H.; Liu, B.; Livingston, K.; Lolos, G. J.; Lorenti, L.; Lyubovitskij, V.; Ma, R.; Mahmood, A.; Marukyan, H.; Matveev, V.; McCaughan, M.; McCracken, M.; Meyer, C. A.; Miskimen, R.; Mitchell, R. E.; Mizutani, K.; Moran, P.; Neelamana, V.; Ng, L.; Nissen, E.; Orešić, S.; Ostrovidov, A. I.; Papandreou, Z.; Paudel, C.; Pedroni, R.; Pentchev, L.; Peters, K. J.; Prather, E.; Veetil, L. Puthiya; Rakshit, S.; Reinhold, J.; Remington, A.; Ritchie, B. G.; Ritman, J.; Rodriguez, G.; Romanov, D.; Saldana, K.; Salgado, C.; Schadmand, S.; Schertz, A. M.; Scheuer, K.; Schick, A.; Schmidt, A.; Schumacher, R. A.; Schwiening, J.; Scott, M.; Septian, N.; Sharp, P.; Shen, X.; Shepherd, M. R.; Sikes, J.; Smith, A.; Smith, E. S.; Sober, D. I.; Somov, A.; Somov, S.; Stevens, J. R.; Strakovsky, I. I.; Sumner, B.; Suresh, K.; Tarasov, V. V.; Taylor, S.; Teymurazyan, A.; Thiel, A.; Viducic, T.; Whitlatch, T.; Wickramaarachchi, N.; Wunderlich, Y.; Yu, B.; Zarling, J.; Zhang, Z.; Zhou, X.; Zihlmann, B. |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
ArXiv.org (Cornell University Library) |
| Subject Terms: |
Nuclear Experiment; High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| Description: |
We measure for the first time the differential photoproduction cross section $dσ/dt$ of the $a_2(1320)$ meson at an average photon beam energy of 8.5~GeV, using data with an integrated luminosity of 104~pb$^{-1}$ collected by the GlueX experiment. We fully reconstruct the $γp \to ηπ^0 p$ reaction and perform a partial-wave analysis in the $a_2(1320)$ mass region with amplitudes that incorporate the linear polarization of the beam. This allows us to separate for the first time the contributions of natural- and unnatural-parity exchanges. These measurements provide novel information about the photoproduction mechanism, which is critical for the search for spin-exotic states. ; 8 pages, 4 figures plus supplemental material |
| Document Type: |
text |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03091 |
| Availability: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03091 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.8FD46730 |
| Database: |
BASE |