Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2025
DOI
10.1103/2tdc-5by6
Publication Title
Physical Review C
Volume
112
Pages
025203
Abstract
We measure the spin-density matrix elements (SDMEs) for the photoproduction of 𝜙(1020) off of the proton in its decay to 𝐾0𝑆𝐾0𝐿, using 105 pb−¹ of data collected with a linearly polarized photon beam using the GlueX experiment. The SDMEs are measured in nine bins of the squared four-momentum transfer 𝑡 in the range −𝑡=0.15−1.0 GeV², providing the first measurement of their 𝑡 dependence for photon beam energies of 𝐸𝛾=8.2−8.8 GeV. We confirm the dominance of Pomeron exchange in this region and put constraints on the contribution of other Regge exchanges. We also find that helicity amplitudes where the helicity of the photon and 𝜙(1020) differ by two units are negligible.
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Data Availability
Article states: "The data that support the findings of this article are not publicly available upon publication because it is not technically feasible and/or the cost of preparing, depositing, and hosting the data would be prohibitive within the terms of this research project. The data are available from the authors upon reasonable request."
Original Publication Citation
Afzal, F., Akondi, C., Albrecht, M., Amaryan, M., Arrigo, S., Arroyave, V., Asaturyan, A., Austregesilo, A., Baldwin, Z., Barbosa, F. J., Barlow, J., Barriga, E., Barsotti, R., Barton, D., Baturin, V., Berdnikov, V., Black, T., Boeglin, W., Boër, M., & Briscoe, W. J. (2025). Measurement of spin-density matrix elements in ϕ(1020) → K⁰sK⁰L photoproduction with a linearly polarized photon beam at Eˠ = 8.2-8.8 GeV. Physical Review C, 112, 1-11, Article 025203. https://doi.org/10.1103/2tdc-5by6
ORCID
0000-0002-5648-0256 (Amaryan)
Repository Citation
Afzal, F.; Akondi, C. S.; Albrecht, M.; Amaryan, M.; Arrigo, S.; Arroyave, V.; Asaturyan, A.; Austegesilo, A.; Baldwin, Z.; Barbosa, F.; Barlow, J.; Barringa, E.; Barsotti, R.; Barton, D.; Baturin, V.; Berdnikov, V. V.; Black, T.; Boeglin, W.; Boer, M.; Briscoe, W. J.; Britton, T.; Brunner, R.; Cao, S.; Chudakov, E.; Chung, G.; Cole, P. L.; Cortes, O.; Crede, V.; Dalton, M. M.; Darulis, D.; Deur, A.; Dobbs, S.; Dolgolenko, A.; Dugger, M.; Dzhygadlo, R.; Ebersole, D.; Edo, M.; Egiyan, H.; Erbora, T.; Eugenio, P.; Fabrizi, A.; Fanelli, C.; Fang, S.; Foda, A. M.; Fritsch, M.; Furletov, S.; Gan, L.; Gao, H.; Gardner, A.; Gasparian, A.; Glazier, D. I.; Gleason, C.; Goryachev, V. S.; Grube, B.; Guo, J.; Guo, L.; Hernandez, J.; Hernandez, K.; Hoffman, N. D.; Hornidge, D.; Huber, G.; Hurck, P.; Imoehl, W.; Ireland, D. G.; Ito, M. M.; Jaegle, I.; Jarvis, N. S.; Jeske, T.; Jing, M.; Jones, R. T.; Kakoyan, V.; Kalicy, G.; Khachatryan, V.; Kourkoumelis, C.; LaDuke, A.; Larin, I.; Lawrence, D.; Lersch, D. I.; Li, H.; Liu, B.; Livingston, K.; Lorenti, L.; Lyubovitskij, V.; Mahmood, A.; Marukyan, H.; Matveev, V.; McCaughan, M.; McCracken, M.; Meyer, C. A.; Miskimen, R.; Mitchell, R. E.; Mizutani, K.; Moran, P.; Neelamana, V.; Ng, L.; Nissen, E.; Orešić, S.; Ostrovidov, A. I.; Papandreou, Z.; Paudel, C.; Pedroni, R.; Pentchev, L.; Peters, K. J.; Prather, E.; Puthiya Veetil, L.; Rakshit, S.; Reinhold, J.; Remington, A.; Ritchie, B. G.; Ritman, J.; Rodriguez, G.; Romanov, D.; Saldana, K.; Salgado, C.; Schadmand, S.; Schertz, A. M.; Scheuer, K.; Schick, A.; Schmidt, A.; Schumacher, R. A.; Schwiening, J.; Scott, M.; Septian, N.; Sharp, P.; Shen, V.; Shen, X.; Shepherd, M. R.; Sikes, J.; Smith, A.; Smith, E. S.; Sober, D. I.; Somov, A.; Somov, S.; Stevens, J. R.; Strakovsky, I. I.; Sumner, B.; Suresh, K.; Tarasov, V. V.; Taylor, S.; Teymurazyan, A.; Thiel, A.; Viducic, T.; Whitlatch, T.; Wickramaarachchi, N.; Wunderlich, Y.; Yu, B.; Zarling, J.; Zhang, Z.; Zhou, X.; and Zihlmann, B., "Measurement of Spin-Density Matrix Elements in ϕ(1020) → K⁰sK⁰L Photoproduction With a Linearly Polarized Photon Beam at Eˠ = 8.2-8.8 GeV" (2025). Physics Faculty Publications. 990.
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