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Cross section measurements of charged pion photoproduction in hydrogen and deuterium from 1.1 to 5.5 GeV

Zhu, L Y ; Arrington, J ; Averett, T ; Beise, E ; Calarco, J ; Chang, T ; Chen, J P ; Chudakov, E ; Coman, M and Clasie, B , et al. (2005) In Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics) 71(4).
Abstract
The differential cross sections for the gamma n ->pi(-)p and the gamma p ->pi(+)n processes were measured at Jefferson Lab. The photon energies ranged from 1.1 to 5.5 GeV, corresponding to center-of-mass energies from 1.7 to 3.4 GeV. The pion center-of-mass angles varied from 50(degrees) to 110(degrees). The pi(-) and pi(+) photoproduction data both exhibit a global scaling behavior at high energies and high transverse momenta, consistent with the constituent counting rule prediction and the existing pi(+) data. The data suggest possible substructure of the scaling behavior, which might be oscillations around the scaling value. The data show an enhancement in the scaled cross section at center-of-mass energy near 2.2 GeV. The... (More)
The differential cross sections for the gamma n ->pi(-)p and the gamma p ->pi(+)n processes were measured at Jefferson Lab. The photon energies ranged from 1.1 to 5.5 GeV, corresponding to center-of-mass energies from 1.7 to 3.4 GeV. The pion center-of-mass angles varied from 50(degrees) to 110(degrees). The pi(-) and pi(+) photoproduction data both exhibit a global scaling behavior at high energies and high transverse momenta, consistent with the constituent counting rule prediction and the existing pi(+) data. The data suggest possible substructure of the scaling behavior, which might be oscillations around the scaling value. The data show an enhancement in the scaled cross section at center-of-mass energy near 2.2 GeV. The differential cross section ratios [d sigma/dt(gamma n ->pi(-)p)/d sigma/dt(gamma p ->pi(+)n)] at high energies and high transverse momenta can be described by calculations based on one-hard-gluon-exchange diagrams. (Less)
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  abstract     = {{The differential cross sections for the gamma n ->pi(-)p and the gamma p ->pi(+)n processes were measured at Jefferson Lab. The photon energies ranged from 1.1 to 5.5 GeV, corresponding to center-of-mass energies from 1.7 to 3.4 GeV. The pion center-of-mass angles varied from 50(degrees) to 110(degrees). The pi(-) and pi(+) photoproduction data both exhibit a global scaling behavior at high energies and high transverse momenta, consistent with the constituent counting rule prediction and the existing pi(+) data. The data suggest possible substructure of the scaling behavior, which might be oscillations around the scaling value. The data show an enhancement in the scaled cross section at center-of-mass energy near 2.2 GeV. The differential cross section ratios [d sigma/dt(gamma n ->pi(-)p)/d sigma/dt(gamma p ->pi(+)n)] at high energies and high transverse momenta can be described by calculations based on one-hard-gluon-exchange diagrams.}},
  author       = {{Zhu, L Y and Arrington, J and Averett, T and Beise, E and Calarco, J and Chang, T and Chen, J P and Chudakov, E and Coman, M and Clasie, B and Crawford, C and Dieterich, S and Dohrmann, F and Dutta, D and Fissum, Kevin and Frullani, S and Gao, H and Gilman, R and Glashausser, C and Gomez, J and Hafidi, K and Hansen, O and Higinbotham, D W and Holt, R J and de Jager, C W and Jiang, X and Kinney, E and Kramer, K and Kumbartzki, G and LeRose, J and Liyanage, N and Mack, D and Markowitz, P and McCormick, K and Meekins, D and Meziani, Z E and Michaels, R and Mitchell, J and Nanda, S and Potterveld, D and Ransome, R and Reimer, P E and Reitz, B and Saha, A and Schulte, E C and Seely, J and Sirca, S and Strauch, S and Sulkosky, V and Vlahovic, B and Weinstein, L B and Wijesooriya, K and Williamson, C and Wojtsekhowski, B and Xiang, H and Xiong, F and Xu, W and Zeng, J and Zheng, X}},
  issn         = {{0556-2813}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{4}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics)}},
  title        = {{Cross section measurements of charged pion photoproduction in hydrogen and deuterium from 1.1 to 5.5 GeV}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.71.044603}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevC.71.044603}},
  volume       = {{71}},
  year         = {{2005}},
}