Physics Letters B (Mar 2017)

Measurement of the p(e,e′π+)n reaction close to threshold and at low Q2

  • I. Friščić,
  • P. Achenbach,
  • C. Ayerbe Gayoso,
  • D. Baumann,
  • R. Böhm,
  • D. Bosnar,
  • L. Debenjak,
  • A. Denig,
  • M. Ding,
  • M.O. Distler,
  • A. Esser,
  • H. Merkel,
  • D.G. Middleton,
  • M. Mihovilovič,
  • U. Müller,
  • J. Pochodzalla,
  • B.S. Schlimme,
  • M. Schoth,
  • F. Schulz,
  • C. Sfienti,
  • S. Širca,
  • M. Thiel,
  • Th. Walcher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.01.033
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 766, no. C
pp. 301 – 305

Abstract

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The cross section of the p(e,e′π+)n reaction has been measured for five kinematic settings at an invariant mass of W=1094 MeV and for a four-momentum transfer of Q2=0.078 (GeV/c)2. The measurement has been performed at MAMI using a new short-orbit spectrometer (SOS) of the A1 collaboration, intended for detection of low-energy pions. The transverse and longitudinal cross section terms were separated using the Rosenbluth method and the transverse-longitudinal interference term has been determined from the left-right asymmetry. The experimental cross section terms are compared with the calculations of three models: DMT2001, MAID2007 and χMAID. The results show that we do not yet understand the dynamics of the fundamental pion.

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