Ahrens J, Altieri S, Annand J R M, Anton G, Arends H-J, Aulenbacher K, Beck R, Bradtke C, Braghieri A, Degrande N, D'Hose N, Drechsel D, Dutz H, Goertz S, Grabmayr P, Hansen K, Harmsen J, Von Harrach D, Hasegawa S, Hasegawa T, Heid E, Helbing K, Holvoet H, Van Hoorebeke L, Horikawa N, Iwata T, Jahn O, Jennewein P, Kageya T, Kamalov S, Kiel B, Klein F, Kondratiev R, Kossert K, Krimmer J, Lang M, Lannoy B, Leukel R, Lisin V, Matsuda T, McGeorge J C, Meier A, Menze D, Meyer W, Michel T, Naumann J, Panzeri A, Pedroni P, Pinelli T, Preobrajenski I, Radtke E, Reichert E, Reicherz G, Rohlof Ch, Rosner G, Ryckbosch D, Sauer M, Schoch B, Schumacher M, Seitz B, Speckner T, Takabayashi N, Tamas G, Thomas A, Tiator L, Van Vyver R, Wakai A, Weihofen W, Wissmann F, Zapadtka F, Zeitler G
Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jun 10;88(23):232002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.232002. Epub 2002 May 24.
The helicity dependence of the gamma-->p-->-->ppi(0) reaction has been measured for the first time in the photon-energy range from 550 to 790 MeV. The experiment, performed at the Mainz microtron MAMI, used a 4pi-detector system, a circularly polarized, tagged photon beam, and a longitudinally polarized frozen-spin target. These data are predominantly sensitive to the D13(1520) resonance and are used to determine its helicity amplitudes.