51. Absorption of the ω and ϕ mesons in nuclei.
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Wood MH, Nasseripour R, Paolone M, Djalali C, Weygand DP, Adhikari KP, Anghinolfi M, Ball J, Battaglieri M, Batourine V, Bedlinskiy I, Bellis M, Berman BL, Biselli AS, Branford D, Briscoe WJ, Brooks WK, Burkert VD, Careccia SL, Carman DS, Cole PL, Collins P, Crede V, D'Angelo A, Daniel A, De Vita R, De Sanctis E, Deur A, Dey B, Dhamija S, Dickson R, Doughty D, Dupre R, Egiyan H, El Alaoui A, El Fassi L, Eugenio P, Fegan S, Gabrielyan MY, Garçon M, Gilfoyle GP, Giovanetti KL, Girod FX, Goetz JT, Gohn W, Gothe RW, Graham L, Guidal M, Guo L, Hafidi K, Hakobyan H, Hanretty C, Hassall N, Hicks K, Holtrop M, Ilieva Y, Ireland DG, Ishkhanov BS, Jawalkar SS, Jo HS, Joo K, Keller D, Khandaker M, Khetarpal P, Kim A, Kim W, Klein A, Klein FJ, Konczykowski P, Kubarovsky V, Kuleshov SV, Kuznetsov V, Livingston K, Martinez D, Mayer M, McAndrew J, McCracken ME, McKinnon B, Meyer CA, Mineeva T, Mirazita M, Mokeev V, Moreno B, Moriya K, Morrison B, Munevar E, Nadel-Turonski P, Ni A, Niccolai S, Niculescu G, Niculescu I, Niroula MR, Osipenko M, Ostrovidov AI, Paremuzyan R, Park K, Park S, Pasyuk E, Anefalos Pereira S, Pisano S, Pogorelko O, Pozdniakov S, Price JW, Procureur S, Prok Y, Protopopescu D, Raue BA, Ricco G, Ripani M, Rosner G, Rossi P, Sabatié F, Saini MS, Salamanca J, Salgado C, Schott D, Schumacher RA, Seder E, Seraydaryan H, Sharabian YG, Smith GD, Sober DI, Sokhan D, Stepanyan S, Stepanyan SS, Stoler P, Strakovsky II, Strauch S, Taiuti M, Tang W, Taylor CE, Tedeschi DJ, Tkachenko S, Ungaro M, Vernarsky B, Vineyard MF, Voutier E, Watts DP, Weinstein LB, Zhang J, Zhao B, and Zhao ZW
- Abstract
Because of their long lifetimes, the ω and ϕ mesons are the ideal candidates for the study of possible modifications of the in-medium meson-nucleon interaction through their absorption inside the nucleus. During the E01-112 experiment at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, the mesons were photoproduced from 2H, C, Ti, Fe, and Pb targets. This Letter reports the first measurement of the ratio of nuclear transparencies for the e+e- channel. The ratios indicate larger in-medium widths compared with what have been reported in other reaction channels. The absorption of the ω meson is stronger than that reported by the CBELSA-TAPS experiment and cannot be explained by recent theoretical models.
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- 2010
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