| Title: |
Baryon resonance production and dielectron decays in proton-proton collisions at 3.5 GeV |
| Authors: |
Agakishiev, G., Balanda, A., Belver, D., Belyaev, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Blanco, A., Böhmer, M., Boyard, J. L., Cabanelas, P., Chernenko, S., Dybczak, A., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Finocchiaro, P., Fonte, P., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Göbel, K., Golubeva, M., González-Díaz, D., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Iori, I., Ivashkin, A., Jurkovic, M., Kämpfer, B., Karavicheva, T., König, I., König, W., Kolb, B. W., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Krása, A., Krizek, F., Krücken, R., Kuc, H., Kühn, W., Kugler, A., Kurepin, A., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lang, S., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Liu, T., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Maier, L., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Metag, V., Michalska, B., Michel, J., Müntz, C., Naumann, L., Pachmayer, Y. C., Pałka, M., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Ramstein, B., Reshetin, A., Rustamov, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Schmah, A., Schwab, E., Siebenson, J., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Spruck, B., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Tarantola, A., Teilab, K., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Trebacz, R., Tsertos, H., Vasiliev, T., Wagner, V., Weber, M., Wendisch, C., Wüstenfeld, J., Yurevich, S., Zanevsky, Y. |
| Source: |
Eur. Phys. J. A 50 (2014) 82 |
| Publication Year: |
2014 |
| Collection: |
Nuclear Experiment |
| Subject Terms: |
Nuclear Experiment, J.2 |
| More Details: |
We report on baryon resonance production and decay in proton-proton collisions at a kinetic energy of $3.5$ GeV based on data measured with HADES. The exclusive channels $pp \rightarrow np\pi^{+}$ and $pp \rightarrow pp\pi^{0}$ as well as $pp \rightarrow ppe^{+}e^{-}$ are studied simultaneously for the first time. The invariant masses and angular distributions of the pion-nucleon systems were studied and compared to simulations based on a resonance model ansatz assuming saturation of the pion production by an incoherent sum of baryonic resonances (R) with masses $<2~$ GeV/$c^2$. A very good description of the one-pion production is achieved allowing for an estimate of individual baryon-resonance production-cross-sections which are used as input to calculate the dielectron yields from $R\rightarrow pe^+e^-$ decays. Two models of the resonance decays into dielectrons are examined assuming a point-like $RN \gamma^*$ coupling and the dominance of the $\rho$ meson. The results of model calculations are compared to data from the exclusive $ppe^{+}e^{-}$ channel by means of the dielectron and $pe^+e^-$ invariant mass distributions.
Comment: 17 pages, 14 figures |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.1140/epja/i2014-14082-1 |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3054 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.1403.3054 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
