51. Light Vector Mesons in the Nuclear Medium
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V. Crede, S. McAleer, L. Blaszczyk, J. R. Calarco, B. L. Berman, E. De Sanctis, S. Tkachenko, M. Taiuti, R. A. Schumacher, Michael Wood, A. I. Ostrovidov, G. Asryan, C. I O Gordon, K. Hafidi, K. Park, C. Paterson, J. W. Price, O. P. Dzyubak, R. A. Niyazov, V. S. Serov, L. C. Dennis, D. G. Ireland, B. G. Ritchie, B. E. Stokes, J. Kuhn, M. R. Niroula, Cynthia Marie Hadjidakis, M. J. Amaryan, H. Avakian, M. MacCormick, I. Hleiqawi, Volker D. Burkert, G. S. Adams, S. L. Careccia, A. S. Biselli, S. Stepanyan, D. Sharov, A. V. Vlassov, Philip L. Cole, Larry Weinstein, J. Pierce, Avraham Klein, Chaden Djalali, K.H. Hicks, D. J. Tedeschi, K. Joo, Sylvain Bouchigny, G. S. Mutchler, Michael Dugger, W. Kim, Gerard Gilfoyle, D. Sokhan, H. S. Jo, K. S. Egiyan, J. Hardie, Friedrich Klein, J. P. Cummings, Laird Kramer, K. Livingston, S. A. Dytman, W. K. Brooks, B. Carnahan, S. Niccolai, H. O. Funsten, P. Collins, Ulrich Mosel, Z. W. Zhao, I. Bedlinskiy, H. G. Juengst, G. Niculescu, R. Nasseripour, K. Mikhailov, R. A. Miskimen, B. McKinnon, H. Hakobyan, S. Anefalos Pereira, D. G. Jenkins, P. Coltharp, Hall Crannell, A.V. Stavinsky, P. Eugenio, R. W. Gothe, V. Sapunenko, M. Bektasoglu, C. Salgado, Dinko Pocanic, M. M. Ito, D. Branford, V. Gyurjyan, P. Khetarpal, A. Fradi, M. Holtrop, M. Kossov, J. M. Laget, D. P. Weygand, Y. Ilieva, V. P. Kubarovsky, R. De Vita, L. C. Smith, E. Munevar, G. E. Dodge, B. S. Ishkhanov, P. Nadel-Turonski, H. Bagdasaryan, P. V. Degtyarenko, N. Guler, S. E. Kuhn, Federico Ronchetti, J. J. Melone, K. Moriya, C. Hanretty, I. Niculescu, D. Lawrence, J. D. Kellie, Victor Mokeev, J. R. Johnstone, L. Guo, M. Ungaro, Latifa Elouadrhiri, G. Rosner, J. Lachniet, A. Tkabladze, M. Guidal, A. Yegneswaran, R. C. Minehart, S. Barrow, C. Tur, P. Rossi, J. Langheinrich, S. S. Stepanyan, E. Pasyuk, J. Zhang, C. A. Meyer, S. Mehrabyan, F. X. Girod, Baile Zhang, G. V. Fedotov, G. Gavalian, R. S. Hakobyan, R. Dickson, M. Ripani, L. El Fassi, D. Doughty, Z. Krahn, N. Benmouna, G. Riccardi, B. A. Raue, M. Osipenko, C. Butuceanu, Tsutomu Mibe, L. Cheng, Shifeng Chen, N. Baillie, Daniel S. Carman, F. Sabatié, Nikolay Shvedunov, K. L. Giovanetti, S. V. Kuleshov, D. Protopopescu, G. Ricco, S. Pozdniakov, M. Garçon, E. Wolin, C. E. Hyde-Wright, O. Pogorelko, J. Ball, N. Kalantarians, M. Khandaker, D. G. Crabb, M. Nozar, B. Zhao, H. Denizli, H. Y. Lu, J. T. Goetz, F. W. Hersman, M. Mirazita, Elton Smith, N. Dashyan, James Mueller, Alexei V. Klimenko, Y. Prok, I. I. Strakovsky, Y. G. Sharabian, P. Muehlich, A. Deur, Ji Li, M. D. Mestayer, R. J. Feuerbach, E. L. Isupov, Michael L. Williams, Maryam Moteabbed, Bernhard Mecking, K. V. Dharmawardane, S. Boiarinov, B. M. Preedom, Lorenzo Zana, J. P. Santoro, M. Battaglieri, D. P. Watts, H. Egiyan, Gerald Feldman, N. A. Baltzell, N. Markov, R. Bradford, K. A. Griffioen, N. Hassall, M. Bellis, J. Salamanca, P. Mattione, J. W C McNabb, M. Anghinolfi, L. Casey, B. B. Niczyporuk, Michael Vineyard, N. Pivnyuk, W. J. Briscoe, L. Todor, S. A. Morrow, S. Strauch, P. Ambrozewicz, P. Stoler, D. I. Sober, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CLAS, and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Rho meson ,Meson ,Nuclear Theory ,FOS: Physical sciences ,light vector mesons ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,chiral symmetry ,Spectral line ,Nuclear physics ,ENHANCEMENT ,CLAS ,0103 physical sciences ,11.30.Rd, 14.40.Cs, 24.85.+p ,QCD SUM-RULES ,Invariant mass ,RHO-MESON ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,010306 general physics ,in-medium modifications ,Nuclear Experiment ,Physics ,AU COLLISIONS ,QCD sum rules ,CEBAF ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,QCD SUM-RULES, RHO-MESON, SPECTRAL-FUNCTION, AU COLLISIONS, OMEGA-MESONS, MATTER, CLAS, ENHANCEMENT, SYSTEM, CEBAF ,Nuclear matter ,SPECTRAL-FUNCTION ,Deuterium ,Mass spectrum ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,MATTER ,SYSTEM ,OMEGA-MESONS - Abstract
The light vector mesons ($\rho$, $\omega$, and $\phi$) were produced in deuterium, carbon, titanium, and iron targets in a search for possible in-medium modifications to the properties of the $\rho$ meson at normal nuclear densities and zero temperature. The vector mesons were detected with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) via their decays to $e^{+}e^{-}$. The rare leptonic decay was chosen to reduce final-state interactions. A combinatorial background was subtracted from the invariant mass spectra using a well-established event-mixing technique. The $\rho$ meson mass spectrum was extracted after the $\omega$ and $\phi$ signals were removed in a nearly model-independent way. Comparisons were made between the $\rho$ mass spectra from the heavy targets ($A > 2$) with the mass spectrum extracted from the deuterium target. With respect to the $\rho$-meson mass, we obtain a small shift compatible with zero. Also, we measure widths consistent with standard nuclear many-body effects such as collisional broadening and Fermi motion., Comment: 15 pages, 18 figures, 3 tables
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- 2008