101. Near-threshold Photoproduction of Phi Mesons from Deuterium
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Qian, X., Chen, W., Gao, H., Hicks, K., Kramer, K., Laget, J. M., Mibe, T., Qiang, Y., Stepanyan, S., Tedeschi, D. J., Xu, W., Adhikari, K. P., Amaryan, M., Anghinolfi, M., Ball, J., Battaglieri, M., Batourine, V., Bedlinskiy, I., Bellis, M., Biselli, A. S., Bookwalter, C., Branford, D., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Careccia, S. L., Carman, D. S., Cole, P. L., Collins, P., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Daniel, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Deur, A., Dey, B., Dhamija, S., Djalali, C., Doughty, D., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., Alaoui, A. El, Eugenio, P., Fegan, S., Gabrielyan, M. Y., Gevorgyan, N., Gilfoyle, G. P., Giovanetti, K. L., Girod, F. X., Goetz, J. T., Gohn, W., Gothe, R. W., Graham, L., Griffioen, K. A., Guidal, M., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Hassall, N., Holtrop, M., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Jawalkar, S. S., Jo, H. S., Joo, K., Keller, D., Khandaker, M., Khetarpal, P., Kim, A., Kim, W., Klein, A., Klein, F. J., Konczykowski, P., Kubarovsky, V., Kuleshov, S. V., Kuznetsov, V., Livingston, K., Martinez, D., Mayer, M., McAndrew, J., McCracken, M. E., McKinnon, B., Meyer, C. A., Mikhailov, K., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Moreno, B., Moriya, K., Morrison, B., Moutarde, H., Munevar, E., Nadel-Turonski, P., Ni, A., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, I., Niroula, M. R., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A. I., Paremuzyan, R., Park, K., Park, S., Pereira, S. Anefalos, Pisano, S., Pogorelko, O., Pozdniakov, S., Price, J. W., Procureur, S., Protopopescu, D., Ricco, G., Ripani, M., Ritchie, B. G., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Sabatié, F., Saini, M. S., Salgado, C., Schott, D., Schumacher, R. A., Seder, E., Seraydaryan, H., Sharabian, Y. G., Smith, E. S., Smith, G. D., Sober, D. I., Sokhan, D., Stepanyan, S. S., Stoler, P., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Taiuti, M., Taylor, C. E., Tkachenko, S., Ungaro, M., Vernarsky, B ., Vineyard, M. F., Voutier, E., Weinstein, L. B., Weygand, D. P., Wood, M. H., Zachariou, N., Zana, L., Zhang, J., Zhao, B., and Zhao, Z. W.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
We report the first measurement of the differential cross section on $\phi$-meson photoproduction from deuterium near the production threshold for a proton using the CLAS detector and a tagged-photon beam in Hall B at Jefferson Lab. The measurement was carried out by a triple coincidence detection of a proton, $K^+$ and $K^-$ near the theoretical production threshold of 1.57 GeV. The extracted differential cross sections $\frac{d\sigma}{dt}$ for the initial photon energy from 1.65-1.75 GeV are consistent with predictions based on a quasifree mechanism. This experiment establishes a baseline for a future experimental search for an exotic $\phi$-N bound state from heavier nuclear targets utilizing subthreshold/near-threshold production of $\phi$ mesons.
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- 2010
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