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Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Mar 02;108(9):092001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.092001. Epub 2012 Feb 27.

Spin-density matrix elements for γp→K*0Σ+ at Eγ=1.85-3.0 GeV with evidence for the κ(800) meson exchange.

Physical review letters

S H Hwang, K Hicks, J K Ahn, T Nakano, D S Ahn, W C Chang, J Y Chen, S Daté, H Ejiri, H Fujimura, M Fujiwara, S Fukui, W Gohn, T Hotta, K Imai, T Ishikawa, K Joo, Y Kato, H Kohri, Y Kon, H S Lee, Y Maeda, M Miyabe, T Mibe, Y Morino, N Muramatsu, Y Nakatsugawa, M Niiyama, H Noumi, Y Oh, Y Ohashi, T Ohta, M Oka, J Parker, C Rangacharyulu, S Y Ryu, T Sawada, Y Sugaya, M Sumihama, T Tsunemi, M Uchida, M Ungaro, M Yosoi,

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Republic of Korea.

PMID: 22463625 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.092001

Abstract

The exclusive reaction γp→K(+)π(-)Σ(+) was measured for the first time using linearly polarized photons at beam energies from 1.85 to 2.96 GeV. Angular distributions in the rest frame of the K(+)π(-) system were fitted to extract spin-density matrix elements of the K(*0) decay. The measured parity spin asymmetry shows that natural-parity exchange is dominant in this reaction. This result clearly indicates the need for t-channel exchange of the κ(800) scalar meson.

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