Electroexcitation of the Δ+(1232) at low momentum transfer

A Blomberg,E Fuchey,Y Zhang,E Schulte,F Garibaldi,J Leckey,A Beck,E Cisbani,D Flay,E Long,M Khandaker,K Chirapatpimol,L Selvy,X Bai,I Korover,J Sjoegren,D Anez,R Subedi,T Averett,S Riordan,C Hanretty,W Tireman,N Kalantarians,H Baghdasaryan,S Frullani,N Muangma,R Shneor,X Zhan,M Friend,M Posik,T Holmstrom,E Piasetzky,V Punjabi,D Hamilton,I Pomerantz,A Rakhman,J Lerose,M Paolone,D Meekins,I Yaron,G Ron,R Lindgren,C Chen,K Allada,O Hen,X Qian,J Arrington,A Saha,B Norum,F Benmokhtar,S Iqbal,M Defurne,N Fomin,J Zhang,W Boeglin,N Sparveris,K Pan,B Wojtsekhowski,P Zhu,W Deconinck,Z Ahmed,C Gu,S Gilad,V Sulkosky,Z Ye,J Mammei,R Gilman,X Zheng,B Zhao,A Martí Jiménez-Argüello ,Athanasia Polychronopoulou ,C Muñoz Camacho ,Md Nuruzzaman ,J W Watson ,O Hansén ,S K Phillips ,S Širca ,Sönke Beck ,B D Anderson ,H Al-Bataineh ,A J Sarty ,M M Dalton ,M Mihovilovič ,M Shabestari ,Min Huang ,Z W Zhao ,D W Higinbotham ,Vincenzo Bellini ,J R M Annand ,Yan Wang ,Р Де Лео ,P E Reimer ,D J Margaziotis ,Z E Meziani ,A Camsonne,A Kelleher,J.P Chen,D Wang,K Aniol,H Kang

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.06.076

Abstract

We report on new p$(e,e^\prime p)\pi^\circ$ measurements at the $\Delta^{+}(1232)$ resonance at the low momentum transfer region. The mesonic cloud dynamics is predicted to be dominant and rapidly changing in this kinematic region offering a test bed for chiral effective field theory calculations. The new data explore the low $Q^2$ dependence of the resonant quadrupole amplitudes while extending the measurements of the Coulomb quadrupole amplitude to the lowest momentum transfer ever reached. The results disagree with predictions of constituent quark models and are in reasonable agreement with dynamical calculations that include pion cloud effects, chiral effective field theory and lattice calculations. The reported measurements suggest that improvement is required to the theoretical calculations and provide valuable input that will allow their refinements.

Highlights

We report on new p(e, e p)π ◦ measurements at the +(1232) resonance at the low momentum transfer region, where the mesonic cloud dynamics is predicted to be dominant and rapidly changing, offering a test bed for chiral effective field theory calculations
The new data explore the Q 2 dependence of the resonant quadrupole amplitudes and for the first time indicate that the Electric and the Coulomb quadrupole amplitudes converge as Q 2 → 0
The measurements of the Coulomb quadrupole amplitude have been extended to the lowest momentum transfer ever reached, and suggest that more than half of its magnitude is attributed to the mesonic cloud in this region

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Repository Citation

A.; Anez, D.; Sparveris, N.; Sarty, A. J.; Paolone, M.; Gilad, S.; Higinbotham, D.; Ahmed, Z.; Albataineh, H.; and Allada, K., "Electroexcitation of the Δ+ (1232) at Low Momentum Transfer" (2016).

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