https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20148102021
Polarization Observables T and F in single π0- and η-Photoproduction off quasi-free Nucleons
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
a e-mail: thomas.strub@unibas.ch
Published online: 26 November 2014
Meson photoproduction has developed into a powerful tool to study the nucleon excitation spectrum and test effective quark models which operate in the non-perturbative regime of QCD. An insight into the JP configurations and isospin decompositions of the contributing resonances is gained by measuring a minimal set of polarization observables on both the proton and the neutron.
Single π0- and η-photoproduction off a transversally polarized d-butanol target has been measured with circularly polarized bremsstrahlung photons generated by the MAMI-C electron microtron. With the nearly 4π acceptance of the combined Crystal Ball/TAPS setup the double polarization observable F and the target asymmetry T can be extracted for the first time for polarized, quasi-free neutrons over a wide energy and angular range.
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