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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne
HK 38: Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy V
HK 38.1: Group Report
Thursday, March 30, 2017, 14:00–14:30, F 5
Recent results of polarization observables in π0- and η-photoproduction off the proton — •Farah Afzal for the CBELSA/TAPS collaboration — Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Universität Bonn
A comparison of experimentally observed excited nucleon states to phenomenological quark model predictions or lattice QCD calculations reveal large differences, especially concerning the number of excited states. An important tool to probe the nucleon excitation spectrum is the study of meson photoproduction reactions. In order to extract the contributing resonances from the experimental data partial wave analyses need to be performed. For an unambiguous solution the measurement of single and double polarization observables is essential. Several experimental facilities have dedicated programs to measure polarization observables in different photoproduction reactions using a polarized photon beam and a polarized target, e.g. the CBELSA/TAPS experiment located at the electron stretcher accelerator ELSA in Bonn or the Crystal Ball experiment located at the accelerator facility MAMI in Mainz.
This talk will present recent results concerning the polarization observables Σ and E in the γ p → p π0 and γ p → p η reactions measured at the CBELSA/TAPS and the Crystal Ball experiment and their impact on the nucleon excitation spectrum. This work is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB/TR16 and SFB1044) and Schweizerischer Nationalfonds.