Two Pion Production from Nuclei

Differences in the photoproduction of mesons on the free proton and on nuclei are expected to reveal changes in the properties of hadrons. Double pion photoproduction from nuclei has been used to investigate the in medium modification of meson-meson interactions with the TAPS photon spectrometer at MAMI-B. Recent developments are reported. Hadron-hadron interactions and meson production and decays involving light nuclei are also studied in hadron induced experiments. In particular, the physics program of the new WASA-at-COSY facility includes double pion production from light nuclei. Here, the efforts focus on the ABC effect, the puzzling low-mass enhancement in the pi-pi invariant mass spectrum, first observed in inclusive measurements of two-pion production in nuclear collisions.Comment: Proceedings of YKIS2006: Yukawa Interantional Symposium 2006 - Excited Hadrons adn Hadronic Matter, Kyoto, Japan, 4.-8.Dec.200

Two Pion Production in Photon Induced Reactions

Differences in the photoproduction of mesons on the free proton and on nuclei are expected to reveal changes in the properties of hadrons. Inclusive studies of nuclear photoabsorption have provided evidence of medium modifications. However, the results have not been explained in a model independent way. A deeper understanding of the situation is anticipated from a detailed experimental study of meson photoproduction from nuclei in exclusive reactions. In the energy regime above the Delta(1232) resonance, the dominant double pion production channels are of particular interest. Double pion photoproduction from nuclei is also used to investigate the in-medium modification of meson-meson interactions.Comment: Proceedings of the Workshop on Hadron Physics, Puri, India, 200

Photoabsorption and Photoproduction on Nuclei in the Resonance Region

Inclusive studies of nuclear photoabsorption have provided clear evidence of medium modifications in the properties of hadrons. However, the results have not been explained in a model independent way. A deeper understanding of the situation is expected from a detailed comparison of meson photoproduction from nucleons and from nuclei in exclusive reactions. Recent experimental results are presented.Comment: Proceedings Duality 200

Wasa at Cosy

The Wide Angle Shower Apparatus (WASA) has been transferred from the storage ring CELSIUS (TSL, Uppsala, Sweden) to the cooler synchrotron COSY (FZ Juelich, Germany). In this presentation, the status and planning of the WASAatCOSY project are reported. The main physics aspects are rare decays of eta and eta' mesons and isospin violation in deuteron-deuteron interactions.Comment: Proceedings of the ETA05 Workshop, Krakow, 16-18 September 2005. submitted to Acta Physica Slovac

Double Pion Photoproduction from Nuclei

Differences in the photoproduction of mesons on the free proton and on nuclei are expected to reveal changes in the properties of hadrons. Inclusive studies of nuclear photoabsorption have provided evidence of medium modifications. However, the results have not been explained in a model independent way. A deeper understanding of the situation is anticipated from a detailed experimental study of meson photoproduction from nuclei in exclusive reactions. In the energy regime above the Delta(1232) resonance, the dominant double pion production channels are of particular interest. Double pion photoproduction from nuclei is also used to investigate the in-medium modification of meson-meson interactions.Comment: proceedings Workshop on In-Medium Hadron Physics Giessen, Nov. 11-13, 200

Study of Non-Strange Baryon Resonances with Meson Photoproduction

Photoproduction of mesons is an excellent tool for the study of nucleon resonances. Complementary to pion induced reactions, photoproduction on the free proton contributes to the determination of the basic properties of nucleon resonances like excitation energy, decay widths, spin, and the coupling to the photon. Photoproduction from light nuclei, in particular from the deuteron, reveals the isospin structure of the electromagnetic excitation of the nucleon. During the last few years, progress in this field has been substantial. New accelerator facilities combined with state-of-the-art detector technologies have pushed the experiments to unprecedented sensitivity and precision. The experimental progress has been accompanied by new developments for the reaction models, necessary to extract the properties of the nucleon states, and for modern hadron models which try to connect these properties to QCD. The emphasis of this review lies on the experimental side and focuses on experiments aiming at precise studies of the low-lying nucleon resonances.Comment: 87 pages, 67 figures, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys., accepte

Studying the ω\omega-mass in-medium in γ+A→π0γ+X\gamma + A\to \pi^0\gamma +X reactions

Simulations based on a coupled-channel transport model have been performed to analyze the feasibility to study the in-medium $\omega$ mass exploiting the process $\gamma+A\to\pi^0\gamma+X$ for C, Ca and Nb nuclei. The distortions due to final-state interactions of the $\pi^0$ and background contributions from the reaction $\gamma+A\to\pi^0\pi^0+X$ are found to be small in the mass range of interest ($0.6<M_{\pi^0\gamma}<0.8$ GeV). Furthermore, the effect of the detector resolution on the $\pi^0\gamma$-mass determination is discussed

MesonNet Workshop on Meson Transition Form Factors

The mini-proceedings of the Workshop on Meson Transition Form Factors held in Cracow from May 29th to 30th, 2012 introduce the meson transition form factor project with special emphasis on the interrelations between the various form factors (on-shell, single off-shell, double off-shell). Short summaries of the talks presented at the workshop follow.Comment: 69 pages, 14 figures; all talks can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/mesonnetwork/home/activities/form-factor-workshop-2012; v2: workshop link updated (as the page had to be moved to a commercial server), table 6 correcte

Experimental Review of Baryons in the Nuclear Medium

Inclusive studies of nuclear photoabsorption have provided clear evidence of medium modifications but the results have not yet been explained in a model independent way. A deeper understanding of the situation is anticipated from a detailed experimental study of meson photoproduction from nuclei in exclusive reactions. Recent results on meson production in photonuclear experiments indicate a large difference between quasifree meson production from the nuclear surface and non-quasifree components.Comment: Proceedings Baryons200

Further search for a neutral boson with a mass around 9 MeV/c2

Two dedicated experiments on internal pair conversion (IPC) of isoscalar M1 transitions were carried out in order to test a 9 MeV/c2 X-boson scenario. In the 7Li(p,e+e-)8Be reaction at 1.1 MeV proton energy to the predominantly T=0 level at 18.15 MeV, a significant deviation from IPC was observed at large pair correlation angles. In the 11B(d,n e+e-)12C reaction at 1.6 MeV, leading to the 12.71 MeV 1+ level with pure T=0 character, an anomaly was observed at 9 MeV/c2. The compatibility of the results with the scenario is discussed.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, 2 table