Abstract

Exclusive meson photoproduction off deuteron is a great tool to study final-state interactions (FSI) between the hadrons produced in the scattering of the incident photon off one of the target nucleons and the spectator nucleon. FSI in the reaction \(\gamma d\rightarrow K^+\varLambda n\) allow to access the dynamics of \(\varLambda n\) elastic scattering and provide a method of studying the hyperon-nucleon (YN) interaction. Also, as deuteron is often used as a neutron target, FSI contribute to the reaction dynamics in addition to the quasi-free mechanism and their understanding is critical for the estimate of observables off the free neutron. Here we show preliminary results for beam-helicity asymmetries for the reactions \(\mathbf {\gamma } d\rightarrow K^+\varLambda n\) and \(\mathbf {\gamma } d\rightarrow p\pi ^+\pi ^- n\) and their evolution over the spectator-nucleon momentum. The data were obtained with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab). We show how to kinematically select an event sample dominated by a specific FSI mechanism. We also discuss a method to extract polarization observables for photoproduction off the free nucleon using the helicity asymmetries for reactions off the deuteron.

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