1. Inclusive e$^+$e$^-$ production in collisions of pions with protons and nuclei in the second resonance region of baryons
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Yassine, R. Abou, Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Atomssa, E. T., Becker, M., Behnke, C., Berger-Chen, J. C., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Ciepał, I., Deb, S., Deveaux, C., Dittert, D., Dreyer, J., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Förtsch, J., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Greifenhagen, R., Grunwald, M., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Höhne, C., Hojeij, F., Holzmann, R., Idzik, M., Kämpfer, B., Kampert, K-H., Kardan, B., Kedych, V., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolas, J., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Krueger, W., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Linev, S., Linz, F., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Markert, J., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Mikhaylov, V., Molenda, A., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Nabroth, M., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Orliński, J., Otto, J. -H., Parpottas, Y., Parschau, M., Pauly, C., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Povar, T., Prościnki, P., Prozorov, A., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schild, N., Schmidt-Sommerfeld, K., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Stefaniak, M., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Sumara, K., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Vazquez-Doce, O., Wagner, V., Weber, A. A., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Wladyszewska, A, Zbroszczyk, H. P., Zherebtsova, E., Zielinski, M., and Zumbruch, P.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
Inclusive e$^+$e$^-$ production has been studied with HADES in $\pi^-$ + p, $\pi^-$ + C and $\pi^- + \mathrm{CH}_2$ reactions, using the GSI pion beam at $\sqrt{s_{\pi p}}$ = 1.49 GeV. Invariant mass and transverse momentum distributions have been measured and reveal contributions from Dalitz decays of $\pi^0$, $\eta$ mesons and baryon resonances. The transverse momentum distributions are very sensitive to the underlying kinematics of the various processes. The baryon contribution exhibits a deviation up to a factor seven from the QED reference expected for the dielectron decay of a hypothetical point-like baryon with the production cross section constrained from the inverse $\gamma$ n$\rightarrow \pi^-$ p reaction. The enhancement is attributed to a strong four-momentum squared dependence of the time-like electromagnetic transition form factors as suggested by Vector Meson Dominance (VMD). Two versions of the VMD, that differ in the photon-baryon coupling, have been applied in simulations and compared to data. VMD1 (or two-component VMD) assumes a coupling via the $\rho$ meson and a direct coupling of the photon, while in VMD2 (or strict VMD) the coupling is only mediated via the $\rho$ meson. The VMD2 model, frequently used in transport calculations for dilepton decays, is found to overestimate the measured dielectron yields, while a good description of the data can be obtained with the VMD1 model assuming no phase difference between the two amplitudes. Similar descriptions have also been obtained using a time-like baryon transition form factor model where the pion cloud plays the major role., Comment: (HADES collaboration)
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- 2023