A new beam asymmetry measurement from pion photoproduction on the neutron using CLAS
- Received Date: 2009-08-07
- Accepted Date: 1900-01-01
- Available Online: 2009-12-05
Abstract:
We present a preliminary analysis of the photon beam asymmetry observable
(Σ) from the photoproduction reaction channel γn→pπ- in the invariant mass range 1.6—2.3 GeV. The measurement was obtained using the near-4π CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Laboratory, USA, employing a linearly polarised photon beam with an energy range 1.1—2.3 GeV, incident on a liquid deuterium target. The measurement will provide new data to address the poorly established neutron excitation spectrum and will greatly expand the sparse world data-set both in energy and angle.