Double pion photoproduction off nuclei - Are there effects beyond final-state interaction?

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作者
Maghrbi, Y. [1 ]
Gregor, R. [2 ]
Lugert, S. [2 ]
Ahrens, J. [3 ]
Annand, J. R. M. [4 ]
Arends, H. J. [3 ]
Beck, R. [5 ]
Bekrenev, V. [6 ]
Boillat, B. [1 ]
Braghieri, A. [7 ]
Branford, D. [8 ]
Briscoe, W. J. [9 ]
Brudvik, J. [10 ]
Cherepnya, S. [11 ]
Codling, R. [4 ]
Downie, E. J. [3 ,4 ,9 ]
Dexler, P. [2 ]
Fil'kov, L. V. [11 ]
Fix, A. [12 ]
Glazier, D. I. [8 ]
Heid, E. [3 ]
Hornidge, D. [13 ]
Jahn, O. [3 ]
Jaegle, I. [1 ]
Kashevarov, V. L. [3 ,11 ]
Keshelashvili, I. [1 ]
Knezevic, A. [14 ]
Kondratiev, A. [15 ]
Korolija, M. [14 ]
Kotulla, M. [1 ,2 ]
Krambrich, D. [3 ]
Krusche, B. [1 ]
Lang, M. [3 ]
Lisin, V. [15 ]
Livingston, K. [4 ]
MacGregor, I. J. D. [4 ]
Manley, D. M. [16 ]
Martinez, M. [3 ]
McGeorge, J. C. [4 ]
Mekterovic, D. [14 ]
Metag, V. [2 ]
Nefkens, B. M. K. [10 ]
Nikolaev, A. [5 ]
Novotny, R. [2 ]
Ostrick, M. [3 ]
Pedroni, P. [7 ]
Pheron, F. [1 ]
Polonski, A. [15 ]
Prakhov, S. N. [10 ]
Price, J. W. [10 ]
机构
[1] Univ Basel, Dept Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[2] Univ Giessen, Inst Phys 2, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
[3] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Kernphys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
[4] Univ Glasgow, Sch Phys & Astron, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[5] Univ Bonn, Helmholtz Inst Strahlen & Kernphys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[6] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, RU-188300 Gatchina, Russia
[7] INFN Sez Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
[8] Univ Edinburgh, Sch Phys, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[9] George Washington Univ, Ctr Nucl Studies, Washington, DC 20052 USA
[10] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[11] PN Lebedev Phys Inst, RU-119991 Moscow, Russia
[12] Tomsk Polytech Univ, Phys Math Lab, Tomsk, Russia
[13] Mt Allison Univ, Sackville, NB E4L 1E6, Canada
[14] Rudjer Boskovic Inst, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
[15] Inst Nucl Res, RU-125047 Moscow, Russia
[16] Kent State Univ, Kent, OH 44242 USA
[17] Catholic Univ Amer, Washington, DC 20064 USA
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
CHIRAL-SYMMETRY; SIGMA-MESON; THRESHOLD; RESTORATION; PI(0)PI(0); RESONANCE; PROTON; MATTER;
D O I
10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.014
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Photoproduction of pi(0)pi(0) and pi(0)pi(+/-) pairs from nuclei has been measured over a wide mass range (H-2, Li-7, C-12, Ca-40, and Pb-nat) for photon energies from threshold to 600 MeV. The experiments were performed at the MAMI accelerator in Mainz, using the Glasgow photon tagging spectrometer and a 4 pi electromagnetic calorimeter consisting of the Crystal Ball and TAPS detectors. A shift of the pion-pion invariant-mass spectra for heavy nuclei to small invariant masses has been observed for pi(0) pairs but also for the mixed-charge pairs. The precise results allow for the first time a model-independent analysis of the influence of pion final-state interactions. The corresponding effects are found to be large and must be carefully considered in the search for possible in-medium modifications of the sigma-meson. Results from a transport model calculation reproduce the shape of the invariant-mass distributions for the mixed-charge pairs better than for the neutral pairs, but also for the latter differences between model results and experiment are not large, leaving not much room for sigma-in-medium modification. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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