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Pion (Kaon) and Sigma polarizabilities
We report the results of the working group on ``Pion (Kaon) and Sigma
Polarizabilities''. Interesting possibilities to measure these polarizabilities
include the radiative pion photoproduction in the MAMI experiment at Mainz, as
well as at the GRAAL facility (actually the latter is being considered for an
experimental determination of the pion polarizabilities here for the first
time), the experimental plans on Primakoff effect at FNAL, and the measurements
at the Frascati -factory DANE.Comment: Rapporteur Talk, Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, A. Bernstein and B.
Holstein organizers, (M.I.T., July 25-29, 1994), working group conducted
together with R. Baldin
Hard exclusive processes with photons
Virtual photons have proven to be very efficient probes of the hadronic
structure, mostly through deep inelastic scattering and related processes. The
advent of high luminosity lepton beams has allowed to enlarge the studied
processes to hard exclusive reactions, such as deeply virtual Compton
scattering and the electroproduction of mesons. We discuss theoretical progress
which has lately been quite remarkable in this domain and first much
encouraging experimental data.Comment: 3 pages, to be published in the proceedings of the International
Conference on the Structure and Interactions of the Photon (Photon 2007)
Paris, july 200
HERA Inclusive Diffraction and Factorisation Tests
HERA measurements of diffractive ep scattering - the quasi-elastic scattering
of the photon in the proton colour field - are summarised. Emphasis is placed
on the most recent data.Comment: 9 pages, proceedings of PHOTON'0
Evidence for a narrow baryonic state decaying to K0Sp and KOSp in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
A resonance search has been made in the K0Sp and KOSp invariant-mass spectrum measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 121 pb−1. The search was performed in the central rapidity region of inclusive deep inelastic scattering at an ep centre-of-mass energy of 300–318 GeV for exchanged photon virtuality, Q2, above 1 GeV2. Recent results from fixed-target experiments give evidence for a narrow baryon resonance decaying to K+n and K0Sp, interpreted as a pentaquark. The results presented here support the existence of such state, with a mass of 1521.5±1.5(stat.)+2.8−1.7(syst.) MeV and a Gaussian width consistent with the experimental resolution of 2 MeV. The signal is visible at high Q2 and, for Q2>20 GeV2, contains 221±48 events. The probability of a similar signal anywhere in the range 1500–1560 MeV arising from fluctuations of the background is below 6×10−5
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