Near-threshold Photoproduction of Phi Mesons from Deuterium
Creators: name: Qian, X.
name: Chen, W.
name: Gao, H.
name: Hicks, K.
name: Kramer, K.
name: Laget, J. M.
name: Mibe, T.
name: Qiang, Y.
name: Stepanyan, S.
name: Tedeschi, D. J.
name: Xu, W.
name: Adhikari, K. P.
name: Amaryan, M.
name: Anghinolfi, M.
name: Ball, J.
name: Battaglieri, M.
name: Batourine, V.
name: Bedlinskiy, I.
name: Bellis, M.
name: Biselli, A. S.
name: Bookwalter, C.
name: Branford, D.
name: Briscoe, W. J.
name: Brooks, W. K.
name: Burkert, V. D.
name: Careccia, S. L.
name: Carman, D. S.
name: Cole, P. L.
name: Collins, P.
name: Crede, V.
name: D'Angelo, A.
name: Daniel, A.
name: Dashyan, N.
name: De Vita, R.
name: De Sanctis, E.
name: Deur, A.
name: Dey, B.
name: Dhamija, S.
name: Djalali, C.
name: Doughty, D.
name: Dupre, R.
name: Egiyan, H.
name: Alaoui, A. El
name: Eugenio, P.
name: Fegan, S.
name: Gabrielyan, M. Y.
name: Gevorgyan, N.
name: Gilfoyle, G. P.
name: Giovanetti, K. L.
name: Girod, F. X.
name: Goetz, J. T.
name: Gohn, W.
name: Gothe, R. W.
name: Graham, L.
name: Griffioen, K. A.
name: Guidal, M.
name: Guo, L.
name: Hafidi, K.
name: Hakobyan, H.
name: Hanretty, C.
name: Hassall, N.
name: Holtrop, M.
name: Ilieva, Y.
name: Ireland, D. G.
name: Jawalkar, S. S.
name: Jo, H. S.
name: Joo, K.
name: Keller, D.
name: Khandaker, M.
name: Khetarpal, P.
name: Kim, A.
name: Kim, W.
name: Klein, A.
name: Klein, F. J.
name: Konczykowski, P.
name: Kubarovsky, V.
name: Kuleshov, S. V.
name: Kuznetsov, V.
name: Livingston, K.
name: Martinez, D.
name: Mayer, M.
name: McAndrew, J.
name: McCracken, M. E.
name: McKinnon, B.
name: Meyer, C. A.
name: Mikhailov, K.
name: Mineeva, T.
name: Mirazita, M.
name: Mokeev, V.
name: Moreno, B.
name: Moriya, K.
name: Morrison, B.
name: Moutarde, H.
name: Munevar, E.
name: Nadel-Turonski, P.
name: Ni, A.
name: Niccolai, S.
name: Niculescu, I.
name: Niroula, M. R.
name: Osipenko, M.
name: Ostrovidov, A. I.
name: Paremuzyan, R.
name: Park, K.
name: Park, S.
name: Pereira, S. Anefalos
name: Pisano, S.
name: Pogorelko, O.
name: Pozdniakov, S.
name: Price, J. W.
name: Procureur, S.
name: Protopopescu, D.
name: Ricco, G.
name: Ripani, M.
name: Ritchie, B. G.
name: Rosner, G.
name: Rossi, P.
name: Sabatié, F.
name: Saini, M. S.
name: Salgado, C.
name: Schott, D.
name: Schumacher, R. A.
name: Seder, E.
name: Seraydaryan, H.
name: Sharabian, Y. G.
name: Smith, E. S.
name: Smith, G. D.
name: Sober, D. I.
name: Sokhan, D.
name: Stepanyan, S. S.
name: Stoler, P.
name: Strakovsky, I. I.
name: Strauch, S.
name: Taiuti, M.
name: Taylor, C. E.
name: Tkachenko, S.
name: Ungaro, M.
name: Vernarsky, B .
name: Vineyard, M. F.
name: Voutier, E.
name: Weinstein, L. B.
name: Weygand, D. P.
name: Wood, M. H.
name: Zachariou, N.
name: Zana, L.
name: Zhang, J.
name: Zhao, B.
name: Zhao, Z. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first measurement of the differential cross section on $ϕ$-meson photoproduction from deuterium near the production threshold for a proton using the CLAS detector and a tagged-photon beam in Hall B at Jefferson Lab. The measurement was carried out by a triple coincidence detection of a proton, $K^+$ and $K^-$ near the theoretical production threshold of 1.57 GeV. The extracted differential cross sections $\frac{dσ}{dt}$ for the initial photon energy from 1.65-1.75 GeV are consistent with predictions based on a quasifree mechanism. This experiment establishes a baseline for a future experimental search for an exotic $ϕ$-N bound state from heavier nuclear targets utilizing subthreshold/near-threshold production of $ϕ$ mesons.