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Lowest- Q2 measurement of the γp → Δ reaction: Probing the pionic contribution

  • S. Stave
  • , M. O. Distler
  • , I. Nakagawa
  • , N. Sparveris
  • , P. Achenbach
  • , C. Ayerbe Gayoso
  • , D. Baumann
  • , J. Bernauer
  • , A. M. Bernstein
  • , R. Böhm
  • , D. Bosnar
  • , T. Botto
  • , A. Christopoulou
  • , D. Dale
  • , M. Ding
  • , L. Doria
  • , J. Friedrich
  • , A. Karabarbounis
  • , M. Makek
  • , H. Merkel
  • U. Müller, R. Neuhausen, L. Nungesser, C. N. Papanicolas, A. Piegsa, J. Pochodzalla, M. Potokar, M. Seimetz, S. Širca, S. Stiliaris, Th Walcher, M. Weis
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Duke University
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • University of Kentucky
  • RIKEN
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • University of Zagreb
  • University of Ljubljana
  • University of Bonn

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Abstract

To determine nonspherical angular-momentum amplitudes in hadrons at long ranges (low Q2), data were taken for the p(̄e, e'p)π0 reaction in the Δ region at Q 2 = 0.060 (GeV/c)2 utilizing the magnetic spectrometers of the A1 Collaboration at MAMI. The results for the dominant transition magnetic dipole amplitude and the quadrupole to dipole ratios at W = 1232 MeV are M1+ 3/2=(40.33 ± 0.63stat+syst ± 0.61 model)(10-3/mπ+), Re(E1+ 3/2/M1+3/2)=(-2.28 ± 0.29 stat+syst ± 0.20model)%, and Re(S1+ 3/2/M1+3/2) =(-4.81 ± 0.27 stat+syst ± 0.26model)%. These disagree with predictions of constituent quark models but are in reasonable agreement with lattice calculations with nonlinear (chiral) pion mass extrapolations, with chiral effective field theory, and with dynamical models with pion cloud effects. These results confirm the dominance, and general Q2 variation, of the pionic contribution at large distances.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)471-476
Number of pages6
JournalEuropean Physical Journal A
Volume30
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2006

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