We report on the first measurement of the differential cross section of phi-meson photoproduction for the d(gamma, pK(+)K(-))n exclusive reaction channel. The experiment was performed using a tagged-photon beam and the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Lab. A combined analysis using data from the d(gamma, pK(+)K(-))n channel and those from a previous publication on coherent phi production on the deuteron has been carried out to extract the phi - N total cross section, sigma(phi N). The extracted phi - N total cross section favors a value above 20 mb. This value is larger than the value extracted using vector-meson dominance models for phi photoproduction on the proton. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The Extraction of phi-N total cross section from d(gamma,pK+ K-)n
RICCO, GIOVANNI;TAIUTI, MAURO GINO;
2009-01-01
Abstract
We report on the first measurement of the differential cross section of phi-meson photoproduction for the d(gamma, pK(+)K(-))n exclusive reaction channel. The experiment was performed using a tagged-photon beam and the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Lab. A combined analysis using data from the d(gamma, pK(+)K(-))n channel and those from a previous publication on coherent phi production on the deuteron has been carried out to extract the phi - N total cross section, sigma(phi N). The extracted phi - N total cross section favors a value above 20 mb. This value is larger than the value extracted using vector-meson dominance models for phi photoproduction on the proton. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.