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Helicity-dependent cross sections for the photoproduction of $pi^0$ pairs from nucleons

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 نشر من قبل Bernd Krusche
 تاريخ النشر 2020
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The double-polarization observable $E$ and helicity-dependent cross sections $sigma_{1/2}$, $sigma_{3/2}$ have been measured for the photoproduction of $pi^0$ pairs off quasi-free protons and neutrons at the Mainz MAMI accelerator with the Crystal Ball/TAPS setup. A circularly polarized photon beam was produced by bremsstrahlung from longitudinally polarized electrons and impinged on a longitudinally polarized deuterated butanol target. The reaction products were detected with an almost $4pi$ covering calorimeter. The results reveal for the first time the helicity- and isospin-dependent structure of the $gamma Nrightarrow Npi^0pi^0$ reaction. They are compared to predictions from reaction models in view of nucleon resonance contributions and also to a refit of one model that predicted results for the proton and for the neutron target. The comparison of the prediction and the refit demonstrate the large impact of the new data.

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