1. An Upper Limit on the Photoproduction Cross Section of the Spin-Exotic $\pi_1(1600)$
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GlueX Collaboration, Afzal, F., Akondi, C. S., Albrecht, M., Amaryan, M., Arrigo, S., Arroyave, V., Asaturyan, A., Austregesilo, A., Baldwin, Z., Barbosa, F., Barlow, J., Barriga, E., Barsotti, R., Barton, D., Baturin, V., Berdnikov, V. V., Black, T., Boeglin, W., Boer, M., Briscoe, W. J., Britton, T., Cao, S., Chudakov, E., Chung, G., Cole, P. L., Cortes, O., Crede, V., Dalton, M. M., Darulis, D., Deur, A., Dobbs, S., Dolgolenko, A., Dugger, M., Dzhygadlo, R., Ebersole, D., Edo, M., Egiyan, H., Erbora, T., Eugenio, P., Fabrizi, A., Fanelli, C., Fang, S., Fitches, J., Foda, A. M., Furletov, S., Gan, L., Gao, H., Gardner, A., Gasparian, A., Glazier, D., Gleason, C., Goryachev, V. S., Grube, B., Guo, J., Guo, L., Hernandez, J., Hernandez, K., Hoffman, N. D., Hornidge, D., Hou, G., Hurck, P., Hurley, A., Imoehl, W., Ireland, D. G., Ito, M. M., Jaegle, I., Jarvis, N. S., Jeske, T., Jing, M., Jones, R. T., Kakoyan, V., Kalicy, G., Khachatryan, V., Kourkoumelis, C., LaDuke, A., Larin, I., Lawrence, D., Lersch, D. I., Li, H., Liu, B., Livingston, K., Lolos, G. J., Lorenti, L., Lyubovitskij, V., Ma, R., Mack, D., Mahmood, A., Marukyan, H., Matveev, V., McCaughan, M., McCracken, M., Meyer, C. A., Miskimen, R., Mitchell, R. E., Mizutani, K., Neelamana, V., Ng, L., Nissen, E., Orešić, S., Ostrovidov, A. I., Papandreou, Z., Paudel, C., Pedroni, R., Pentchev, L., Peters, K. J., Prather, E., Rakshit, S., Reinhold, J., Remington, A., Ritchie, B. G., Ritman, J., Rodriguez, G., Romanov, D., Saldana, K., Salgado, C., Schadmand, S., Schertz, A. M., Scheuer, K., Schick, A., Schmidt, A., Schumacher, R. A., Schwiening, J., Septian, N., Sharp, P., Shen, X., Shepherd, M. R., Sikes, J., Smith, A., Smith, E. S., Sober, D. I., Somov, A., Somov, S., Stevens, J. R., Strakovsky, I. I., Sumner, B., Suresh, K., Tarasov, V. V., Taylor, S., Teymurazyan, A., Thiel, A., Viducic, T., Whitlatch, T., Wickramaarachchi, N., Wunderlich, Y., Yu, B., Zarling, J., Zhang, Z., Zhou, X., and Zihlmann, B.
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Nuclear Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
The spin-exotic hybrid meson $\pi_{1}(1600)$ is predicted to have a large decay rate to the $\omega\pi\pi$ final state. Using 76.6~pb$^{-1}$ of data collected with the GlueX detector, we measure the cross sections for the reactions $\gamma p \to \omega \pi^+ \pi^- p$, $\gamma p \to \omega \pi^0 \pi^0 p$, and $\gamma p\to\omega\pi^-\pi^0\Delta^{++}$ in the range $E_\gamma =$ 8-10 GeV. Using isospin conservation, we set the first upper limits on the photoproduction cross sections of the $\pi^{0}_{1}(1600)$ and $\pi^{-}_{1}(1600)$. We combine these limits with lattice calculations of decay widths and find that photoproduction of $\eta'\pi$ is the most sensitive two-body system to search for the $\pi_1(1600)$., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures plus supplemental materials
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- 2024