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Photoproduction and Decays of Pseudoscalar Mesons in CLAS. Moskov Amaryan Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia, USA . Outline. CLAS setup at JLAB. -Classification of Mesons. - Hadronic decays.
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Photoproduction and Decays of Pseudoscalar Mesons in CLAS MoskovAmaryan Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia, USA M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
Outline • CLAS setup at JLAB -Classification of Mesons -Hadronic decays -Radiative decays -Dalitz decays -Summary M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
CLAS JLab Site: The 6 GeV CW Electron Accelerator Emax ~ 6 GeV Imax ~ 200 mA Duty Factor ~ 100% sE/E ~ 2.5 10-5 Beam P ~ 80% Eg(tagged) ~ 0.8- 5.5 GeV M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
The CLAS Photon Tagger M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
CEBAFLarge Acceptance Spectrometer Torus magnet 6 superconducting coils Large angle calorimeters Lead/scintillator, 512 PMTs Liquid D2 (H2)target + g start counter; e minitorus Gas Cherenkov counters e/p separation, 216 PMTs Drift chambers argon/CO2 gas, 35,000 cells Electromagnetic calorimeters Lead/scintillator, 1296 PMTs Time-of-flight counters plastic scintillators, 684 PMTs M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
Horizontal cut through the CLAS detector M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
(Reminder) M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
Meson Families J=L+S P=(-1)L+1 C=(-1)L+S G=(-1)L+S+I M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
In the SU(3) Group Theory Language M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
OUTLINE - Photoproduction of Pseudoscalar Mesons with CLAS Hadronic Decays Radiative Decays Also Vector Mesons: M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
Missing Mass Distribution gp pX Single charged track events identified as a proton M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
Missing Mass π0 η 3 charged track events identified as a proton, π+ and π- M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka Rule OZI allowed OZI suppressed M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
ω-ϕ Interference in e+e- annihilation M.N.Achasov hep-ex/0604051 It depends on production and decay amplitudes of interfering resonances as well as on their relative phases. How would it look like in photoproduction? M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
OZI Rule Violating Decay of ϕ meson in photoproduction γ+p = pπ+π-π0 ω ϕ η‘ Hadronic decay η‘ ϕ η (~2M events) M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
G-Parity Violating Decay of φ Meson ? η‘ f1(1285) PDG Exp. limit Br<1.8x10-5 Φ M=1.021 GeV σ = 0.005 GeV Theory prediction: Br( ) ~3x10-7 Achasov, I.J.M.Phys. A, Vol.7, No. 20(1992, 4825) M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
~340K η’ events and ~1M on tape arXiv:1012.1117v2 [hep-ex] ~40K events M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
not corrected for acceptance M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
From g11 run only Adding g12 will reduce stat.err. by factor of two M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
Radiative Decay ρ/ M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
WASA-at-COSY[17] BNL-AGS[18] Theory: F.Stollenwerk et al., arXiv:1108.2419v1 [nucl-th] η’->π+π-γ η->π+π-γ CLAS Not corrected Eγ [GeV] Eγ [GeV] M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
CLAS Not corrected for acceptance M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
Dalitz Decay of Pseudoscalar Mesons M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011
Summary • High statistics experimental resultson rare and dominant • decay modes of pseudoscalar and vector mesons are • obtained with CLAS at JLAB. • In some channels CLAS data are exceeding the world • statistics • Dalitz decay of etaprime is observed for the first time • -Combining data from different world facilities will help • to provide high quality and high statistics data • -We believe that common efforts of European and US • groups related to meson decays will be extremely useful • Thanks for the opportunity to give a seminar in University • of Bochum ! M.Amaryan, University of Bochum, December 6, 2011