학술논문
Measurement of the Photon Beam Asymmetry in $\vec{\gamma} p\to K^+\Sigma^0$ at $E_{\gamma} = 8.5$ GeV
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Working Paper
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The GlueX Collaboration; Adhikari, S.; Ali, A.; Amaryan, M.; Austregesilo, A.; Barbosa, F.; Barlow, J.; Barriga, E.; Barsotti, R.; Beattie, T. D.; Berdnikov, V. V.; Black, T.; Boeglin, W.; Briscoe, W. J.; Britton, T.; Brooks, W. K.; Cannon, B. E.; Cao, N.; Chudakov, E.; Cole, S.; Cortes, O.; Crede, V.; Dalton, M. M.; Daniels, T.; Deur, A.; Dobbs, S.; Dolgolenko, A.; Dotel, R.; Dugger, M.; Dzhygadlo, R.; Egiyan, H.; Erbora, T.; Ernst, A.; Eugenio, P.; Fanelli, C.; Fegan, S.; Foda, A. M.; Foote, J.; Frye, J.; Furletov, S.; Gan, L.; Gasparian, A.; Gleason, C.; Goetzen, K.; Goncalves, A.; Goryachev, V. S.; Guo, L.; Hakobyan, H.; Hamdi, A.; Huber, G. M.; Hurley, A.; Ireland, D. G.; Ito, M. M.; Jarvis, N. S.; Jones, R. T.; Kakoyan, V.; Kalicy, G.; Kamel, M.; Kourkoumelis, C.; Kuleshov, S.; Larin, I.; Lawrence, D.; Lersch, D. I.; Li, H.; Li, W.; Liu, B.; Livingston, K.; Lolos, G. J.; Lyubovitskij, V.; Mack, D.; Marukyan, H.; Matveev, V.; McCaughan, M.; McCracken, M.; McGinley, W.; Meyer, C. A.; Miskimen, R.; Mitchell, R. E.; Nerling, F.; Ng, L.; Ni, H.; Ostrovidov, A. I.; Papandreou, Z.; Patsyuk, M.; Paudel, C.; Pauli, P.; Pedroni, R.; Pentchev, L.; Peters, K. J.; Phelps, W.; Pooser, E.; Qin, N.; Reinhold, J.; Ritchie, B. G.; Robison, L.; Romanov, D.; Romero, C.; Salgado, C.; Schertz, A. M.; Schumacher, R. A.; Schwiening, J.; Seth, K. K.; Shen, X.; Shepherd, M. R.; Smith, E. S.; Sober, D. I.; Somov, A.; Somov, S.; Soto, O.; Stevens, J. R.; Strakovsky, I. I.; Suresh, K.; Tarasov, V. V.; Taylor, S.; Teymurazyan, A.; Thiel, A.; Vasileiadis, G.; Whitlatch, T.; Wickramaarachchi, N.; Williams, M.; Xiao, T.; Yang, Y.; Zarling, J.; Zhang, Z.; Zhou, Q.; Zhou, X.; Zihlmann, B.
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Phys. Rev. C 101, 065206 (2020)
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Abstract
We report measurements of the photon beam asymmetry $\Sigma$ for the reaction $\vec{\gamma} p\to K^+\Sigma^0$(1193) using the GlueX spectrometer in Hall D at Jefferson Lab. Data were collected using a linearly polarized photon beam in the energy range of 8.2-8.8 GeV incident on a liquid hydrogen target. The beam asymmetry $\Sigma$ was measured as a function of the Mandelstam variable $t$, and a single value of $\Sigma$ was extracted for events produced in the $u$-channel. These are the first exclusive measurements of the photon beam asymmetry $\Sigma$ for the reaction in this energy range. For the $t$-channel, the measured beam asymmetry is close to unity over the $t$-range studied, $-t=(0.1-1.4)~$(GeV/$c$)$^{2}$, with an average value of $\Sigma = 1.00\pm 0.05$. This agrees with theoretical models that describe the reaction via the natural-parity exchange of the $K^{*}$(892) Regge trajectory. A value of $\Sigma = 0.41 \pm 0.09$ is obtained for the $u$-channel integrated up to $-u=2.0$~(GeV/$c$)$^{2}$.