Production and Dalitz decays of baryon resonances in proton-proton interaction s\sqrt s = 3.16 GeV with HADES

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2013

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20122013201401
Abstract: (IOP)
One of the physics goals of HADES is to investigate spectral modifications of light vector mesons in strongly interacting matter via their dielectron (e(+)e(−)) decay channel. Theoretical models predict such modifications due to strong meson-baryon resonance coupling which can be also probed in elementary collisions. In 2007 electron-positron pair production has been measured in p+p reactions at a beam kinetic energy of 3.5 GeV. We present analysis results of the exclusive channels ppπ(0), pnπ(+), ppe(+)e(−), which indicate contributions of higher resonances. In order to estimate production cross sections of the baryonic resonances, the results have been compared to Monte Carlo calculations based on a resonance model assuming an incoherent sum of various four-star resonances. To obtain the corresponding e(+)e(−) yields, two models of the width parametrization are applied in the simulation.
  • p p: exclusive reaction
  • pi: hadroproduction
  • electron: pair production
  • baryon resonance: decay
  • cross section
  • experimental results
  • HADES
  • Darmstadt SIS
  • p p --> 2p pi
  • p p --> 2p positron electron