Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
1998-11-23
Phys.Rev. C60 (1999) 025203
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
40 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.60.025203
A large reduction of the rho^0 mass in the nuclear medium is reported, inferred from dipion photoproduction spectra in the 1 GeV region, for the reaction 3He(gamma,pi+ pi-)X with a 10% duty factor tagged-photon beam and the TAGX multi-particle spectrometer. The energy range covered (800 < E(gamma) < 1120 MeV) lies mostly below the free rho^0 production threshold, a region which is believed sensitive to modifications of light vector-meson properties at nuclear-matter densities. The rho^0 masses extracted from the MC fitting of the data, m*(rho^0) = 642 +/- 40, 669 +/- 32, and 682 +/- 56 MeV/c^2 for E(gamma) in the 800-880, 880-960, and 960-1040 MeV regions respectively, are independently corroborated by a measured, assumption-free, kinematical observable. This mass shift, far exceeding current mean-field driven theoretical predictions, may be suggestive of rho^0 decay within the range of the nucleonic field.
Brash E. J.
Emura Tsuneo
Endo Satoshi
Farzanpay Farzin
Garino G.
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