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Title: Strangeness Photoproduction at the BGO-OD experiment
The BGO-OD experiment at the ELSA accelerator facility uses an energy tagged bremsstrahlung photon beam to investigate the excitation structure of the nucleon. The setup consists of a highly segmented BGO calorimeter surrounding the target, with a particle tracking magnetic spectrometer at forward angles. BGO-OD is ideal for investigating low momentum transfer processes due to the acceptance and high momentum resolution at forward angles. In particular, this enables the investigation of strangeness photoproduction where t-channel exchange mechanisms play an important role. This also allows access to low momentum exchange kinematics where extended, molecular structure may manifest in reaction mechanisms. First key results at low t indicate a cusp-like structure in K + Σ 0 photoproduction at W = 1900 MeV, line shapes and differential cross sections for K + Λ(1405)→ K + Σ 0 π 0 , and a peak structure in K 0 S Σ 0 photoproduction. The peak in the K 0 S Σ 0 channel appears consistent with meson-baryon generated states, where equivalent models have been used to describe the P C pentaquark candidates in the heavy charmed quark sector.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2012826
PAR ID:
10283818
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Beck, R.; Thiel, A.; Thoma, U.; Wunderlich, Y.
Date Published:
Journal Name:
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume:
241
ISSN:
2100-014X
Page Range / eLocation ID:
01008
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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