1. Measurement of the beam-helicity asymmetry I⊙ in the photoproduction of $ \pi^{0}$ $ \pi^{\pm}$ pairs off protons and off neutrons
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Oberle, M., Ahrens, J., Annand, J. R. M., Arends, H. J., Bantawa, K., Bartolome, P. A., Beck, R., Bekrenev, V., Berghäuser, H., Braghieri, A., Branford, D., Briscoe, W. J., Brudvik, J., Cherepnya, S., Demissie, B., Dieterle, M., Downie, E. J., Drexler, P., Fil’kov, L. V., Fix, A., Glazier, D. I., Heid, E., Hornidge, D., Howdle, D., Huber, G. M., Jahn, O., Jaegle, I., Jude, T. C., Käser, A., Kashevarov, V. L., Keshelashvili, I., Kondratiev, R., Korolija, M., Kruglov, S. P., Krusche, B., Kulbardis, A., Lisin, V., Livingston, K., MacGregor, I. J. D., Maghrbi, Y., Mancell, J., Manley, D. M., Marinides, Z., Martinez, M., McGeorge, J. C., McNicoll, E., Mekterovic, D., Metag, V., Micanovic, S., Middleton, D. G., Mushkarenkov, A., Nefkens, B. M. K., Nikolaev, A., Novotny, R., Ostrick, M., Oussena, B., Pedroni, P., Pheron, F., Polonski, A., Prakhov, S. N., Robinson, J., Rosner, G., Rostomyan, T., Schumann, S., Sikora, M. H., Sober, D. I., Starostin, A., Supek, I., Thiel, M., Thomas, A., Unverzagt, M., Watts, D. P., Werthmüller, D., Witthauer, L., and Zehr, F.
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Nuclear Theory ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
Beam-helicity asymmetries have been measured at the MAMI accelerator in Mainz for the photoproduction of mixed-charge pion pairs in the reactions $ \gamma p\rightarrow n\pi^{0}\pi^{+}$ off free protons and $ \gamma d \rightarrow (p)p\pi^{0}\pi^{-}$ and $ \gamma d\rightarrow (n)n\pi^{0}\pi^{+}$ off quasi-free nucleons bound in the deuteron for incident photon energies up to 1.4GeV. Circularly polarized photons were produced from bremsstrahlung of longitudinally polarized electrons and tagged with the Glasgow-Mainz magnetic spectrometer. The charged pions, recoil protons, recoil neutrons, and decay photons from $ \pi^{0}$ mesons were detected in the $ 4\pi$ electromagnetic calorimeter composed of the Crystal Ball and TAPS detectors. Using a complete kinematic reconstruction of the final state, excellent agreement was found between the results for free and quasi-free protons, suggesting that the quasi-free neutron results are also a close approximation of the free-neutron asymmetries. A comparison of the results to the predictions of the Two-Pion-MAID reaction model shows that the reaction mechanisms are still not well understood, in particular at low incident photon energies in the second nucleon-resonance region.
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- 2019