First Measurement of Near-Threshold J/ψ Exclusive Photoproduction off the Proton

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作者
Ali, A. [10 ]
Amaryan, M. [22 ]
Anassontzis, E. G. [2 ]
Austregesilo, A. [3 ]
Baalouch, M. [22 ]
Barbos, F. [14 ]
Barlow, J. [7 ]
Barnes, A. [3 ]
Barriga, E. [7 ]
Beattie, T. D. [23 ]
Berdnikov, V. V. [17 ]
Black, T. [20 ]
Boeglin, W. [6 ]
Boer, M. [4 ]
Briscoe, W. J. [8 ]
Britton, T. [14 ]
Brooks, W. K. [24 ]
Cannon, B. E. [7 ]
Cao, N. [11 ]
Chudakov, E. [14 ]
Cole, S. [1 ]
Cortes, O. [8 ]
Crede, V [7 ]
Dalton, M. M. [14 ]
Daniels, T. [20 ]
Deur, A. [14 ]
Dobbs, S. [7 ]
Dolgolenko, A. [13 ]
Dotel, R. [6 ]
Dugger, M. [1 ]
Dzhygadlo, R. [10 ]
Egiyan, H. [14 ]
Ernst, A. [7 ]
Eugenio, P. [7 ]
Fanelli, C. [16 ]
Fegan, S. [8 ]
Foda, A. M. [23 ]
Foote, J. [12 ]
Frye, J. [12 ]
Furletov, S. [14 ]
Gan, L. [20 ]
Gasparian, A. [19 ]
Gauzshtein, V [25 ,26 ]
Gevorgyan, N. [27 ]
Gleason, C. [12 ]
Goetzen, K. [10 ]
Goncalves, A. [7 ]
Goryachev, V. S. [13 ]
Guo, L. [6 ]
Hakobyan, H. [24 ]
机构
[1] Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
[2] Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Athens 15771, Greece
[3] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[4] Catholic Univ Amer, Washington, DC 20064 USA
[5] Univ Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 USA
[6] Florida Int Univ, Miami, FL 33199 USA
[7] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[8] George Washington Univ, Washington, DC 20052 USA
[9] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[10] GSI Helmholtzzentrum Schwerionenforsch GmbH, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany
[11] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[12] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[13] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Natl Res Ctr, Kurchatov Inst, Moscow 117259, Russia
[14] Thomas Jefferson Natl Accelerator Facil, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[15] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[16] MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[17] Natl Res Nucl Univ, Moscow Engn Phys Inst, Moscow 115409, Russia
[18] Notfolk State Univ, Norfolk, VA 23504 USA
[19] North Carolina A&T State Univ, Greensboro, NC 27411 USA
[20] Univ North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403 USA
[21] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[22] Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA
[23] Univ Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
[24] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile
[25] Tomsk State Univ, Tomsk 634050, Russia
[26] Tomsk Polytech Univ, Tomsk 634050, Russia
[27] Yerevan Phys Inst, AI Alikhanian Natl Sci Lab, Yerevan 0036, Armenia
[28] Coll William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185 USA
[29] Wuhan Univ, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, Peoples R China
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Atomic physics - Germanium compounds;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.072001
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We report on the measurement of the gamma p -> J/psi p cross section from E-gamma = 11.8 GeV down to the threshold at 8.2 GeV using a tagged photon beam with the GlueX experiment. We find that the total cross section falls toward the threshold less steeply than expected from two-gluon exchange models. The differential cross section d sigma/dt has an exponential slope of 1.67 +/- 0.39 GeV-2 at 10.7 GeV average energy. The LHCb pentaquark candidates P-c(+) can be produced in the s channel of this reaction. We see no evidence for them and set model-dependent upper limits on their branching fractions B(P-c(+) -> J/psi p) and cross sections sigma(gamma p -> P-c(+)) x B(P-c(+) -> J/psi p).
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