Coherent photoproduction of proton anti- proton pair on deuterium · The production has been studied from CLAS/g6c and CLAS/g12 data stets, with much higher (x50) statistics. No evidence

Coherent photoproduction of proton anti-proton pair on deuterium

Y. Ghandilyan (grad.student, YerPhI), S. Stepanyan (JLAB) CLAS Collaboration Meeting

February 24-26, 2016, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA

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Ø  Purpose: study claims of several groups on existence of states at masses M ∼ 2.02 GeV and ∼ 2.2 GeV decaying to

Ø  Data from CLAS/eg3 run – high luminosity, high energy, Eγ<5.7 GeV, photoproduction on deuterium (40 cm long LD2 target)

Ø  3-charged particle trigger for most of the run with Eγ>4.5 GeV

Ø  Revers torus field (positives inward)

Ø  Analysis include photoproduction reactions in fully exclusive final states:

(physics background)

Ø  The production has been studied from CLAS/g6c and CLAS/g12 data stets, with much higher (x50) statistics. No evidence of resonances has been found. But, there are ambiguities in production mechanism in photo-production on the proton target

S. Stepanyan, CLAS collaboration meeting

This analysis

!d" pp #d

pp

!d" K +K # $d!d"#+#$ %d

pp!d" pp#$

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Coherent production on deuterium n  No ambiguities, production of

can happen only in t-channel, no s- or u-channel contributions

n  Detection of the recoil deuteron filters out most of the physics backgrounds


hh n  There is a recoil and produced (decay) proton ambiguity in case of hydrogen target

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Analysis steps Event selection

a)  Event topology, 3 charged tracks (++-) only, no neutrals b)  3-momentum conservation cuts c)  Tagged photon identification, re-determination of the event start time d)  Loose PID cuts using TOF mass e)  Deuteron ID, dE/dx and vertex time, and momentum corrections f)  Selection based on energy conservation between initial and final states

Yield/cross section extraction a)  Acceptance simulations, t-channel production model/GSIM/GPP/

RECSIS (eg3 setup) b)  Coherent ρ0-photoproduction, cosθ* and t-dependences c)  Invariant mass, cosθ* and t-dependences of cross sections in -


!d" pp #d!d" K +K # $d!d"#+#$ %d

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3-momentum conservation: px and py

Events with only 3-tracks, (++-) For fully exclusive final state with 3 particles:


pxi

i=1

3

! " 0 pyi

i=1

3

! " 0

pxi

i! < ±4"

pyi

i=1

3

! " 0pxi

i=1

3

! " 0

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3-momentum conservation: pz and Eγ


For fully exclusive final state:

!pz = pzi

i=1

3

" #E$ % 0

±4σ cut is applied to select tagged photon candidate

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Matched tagger hits


§  The number of 2-matched photons is 10% of 1-matched photon events

§  The number of events with 3- or 4-matched photons is <0.5% of 1- and 2-matched photon cases, and will be ignored

§  Only tiny fraction of 2-matched photons are in the triggered region, Eγ>4.5 GeV (Case#3) and will be ignored as well

§  Most of 1-matched photons are the ones selected during the initial data processing (Case #1), for new tagged photon cases (#2), the event start time has been re-calculated

Number of photons ±4σ cut Δpz

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Loose cuts on TOF-mass


m2 =p2 !(1"#2 )

#2; # =

1c

Rt " tst

h+ h-

p – momentum from tracking R – path length to SC from tracking t – time measured by SC tst – event start time from tagger

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Deuteron identification after loose cut on m2


Energy loss in TOF paddle Vertex time distribution:

dtv = t ! ttof ! tst ; ttof =R"c;

" =pE; E = p2 +md

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Cut on low energy deposition

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Energy conservation


!E = pzi

i=1

3

" +md # Eii=1

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" $ 0

!d"#+#$ %d

Ep = p2 +mp2 ; EK = p2 +mK

2 ; E!= p2 +m

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E(pp–d) (GeV)

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Deuteron ID and the reaction


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!E = pzi

i=1

3

" +md # Eii=1

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" $ 0

Ei = pi2 +mi

2 ; i = p, p, %#

After deuteron ID

!d" pp#$

!tv = ( t1 "R1c#1

)"( t2 "R2c#2

)

# =p

p2 +mp2

;

1" proton1, 2" proton2

p – momentum from tracking R – path length to SC from tracking t – time measured by SC mi – particle PDG mass

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Simulations


M(pp–) (GeV))

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1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3-t (GeV2))

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•  Physics model: t-channel production of hadron pairs.

•  Pair production according to phase space, isotropic in CM

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MC reconstruction

Y ! e3t

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Acceptance calculations


-t (GeV2))

Acc

epta

nce

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0.005

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0.015

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0.025

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!d" pp #d

•  Much smaller acceptances compared to CLAS proton data are due 3-particle final state and reverse torus field.

•  Track reconstruction efficiency of 95% was applied in addition

cos( *)

Acceptance

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Cross section of coherent ρ production


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d/d

cos(

CM

)

~ 1-cos2( CM)

-t (GeV2)

d/d

t (nb

/GeV

2)

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SLAC

CLAS/eg3

Normalization: gflux, number target nuclei, trigger correction (large for eg3)

Acceptance is < 20% of max

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Invariant mass and t-dependence


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0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3M(h+h-) (GeV)

d/d

M (n

b/G

eV)

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pp

K +K !

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0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3-t (GeV2)

d/d

t (µ

b/G

eV2 )

0.52e(1.74t)

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pp

M>2 GeV

!d" h+h# $d

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h+ angular distribution in the helicity frame


1.9 GeV M(h+h-) 2.5 GeV

10-2

10-1

1

d/dcos(

CM)

a+b*cos( )+c*sin( )cos( )+d*cos2( )

a=0.0573b=0.1052c=0.0232d=0.1384

10-2

10-1

-1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 -0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1cos( CM)

d/dcos(

CM)

a=0.0158b=-0.0439c=0.0604d=0.1186

pp pp

!+!"

2.1 GeV M(h+h-) 2.3 GeV

10-2

10-1

1a+b*cos( )+c*sin( )cos( )+d*cos2( )

d/dcos(

CM)

a=0.0224b=0.0753c=0.0118d=0.1204

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a=0.0094b=-0.0333c=0.0464d=0.0517

cos( CM)

d/dcos(

CM)!+!"

Acceptance is < 20% of max

!E = pzi

i=1

3

" +md # Eii=1

3

" $ 0

Ei = pi2 +mi

2 ; i = p, p, %#

17 Summary n  Coherent photoproduction of hadron pairs, , , and , has

been studied using CLAS /eg3 data. The cross sections as a function of pair invariant mass, transferred momentum squared, and pair CM angle have been extracted

n  No resonance structures have been found in the invariant mass of

n  In the region of the pair invariant masses >2 GeV, extracted yields for and came out to be comparable – need an explanation or a model (di-quarks?)

n  Next steps:

q  redo simulations after refining the model using input from extracted yields (corrected enery, M(h+h-), t, and cos(θ*) dependences)

q  study run dependence (before and after 2004 Christmas breaks)

q  study track reconstruction efficiency, ρ cross section came out lower than previous SLAC results

q  refine statistical uncertainties (dominated by acceptance and trigger efficiency estimate)


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18 Proton-Antiproton Pair Production in Two-Photon Collisions at LEP


L3 collaboration, arXiv:hep-ex/030601

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Coherent photoproduction of proton anti- proton pair on deuterium · The production has been studied from CLAS/g6c and CLAS/g12 data stets, with much higher (x50) statistics. No evidence

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