Contribution of higher nucleon resonances to KΛK^*{\Lambda} photoproduction

Oct, 2011
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 84 (2011) 114023
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Report number:
  • INHA-NTG-16-2011,
  • KIAS-P11064

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We investigate K*{\Lambda}(1116) photoproduction off the proton and neutron targets in the effective Lagrangian method in the tree-level Born approximation. In addition to the K, K*, and {\kappa} exchanges which are the main contributions to the reaction, we consider the contributions from the higher nucleon resonances D13(2080) and the D15(2200). We find that the D13(2080) plays a crucial role in explaining the enhancement of the near-threshold production rate, which results in a good agreement with the experimental data for the proton targets, while the contribution of the D15(2200) is rather small. A similar conclusion is drawn for K* photoproduction off the neutron targets. In addition to the energy and angular dependence of the cross sections, we present the predictions on the photon-beam asymmetry.
Note:
  • 12 pages, 19 figures
  • 13.60.Le
  • 14.20.Gk
  • K* photoproduction
  • effective Lagrangian method
  • nucleon resonance
  • polarization observables
  • photon nucleon: exclusive reaction
  • K*(892): photoproduction
  • Lambda: associated production
  • differential cross section: angular dependence