2001/10/01 by Jeffrey M. Weiss, J. Weiss, P. Achenbach +20 · 2 citations
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques #Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications #Nuclear Physics and Applications #nucl-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s100500170047
published as Eur.Phys.J. A11 (2001) 371-374 · 4 pages, 4 figures
openalex publication_date 2001/10/01 · arxiv created 2003/04/02 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Coherent photoproduction of eta mesons from the deuteron has been measured from threshold up to incident photon energies of 750 MeV using the photon spectrometer TAPS at the tagged photon facility at the Mainz microtron MAMI. For the first time, differential coherent cross sections have been deduced from the coincident detection of the eta meson and the recoil deuteron. A missing energy analysis was used for the suppression of background events so that a very clean identification of coherent eta-photoproduction was achieved. The resulting cross sections agree with previous experimental results except for angles around 90 deg in the photon-deuteron cm-system where they are smaller. They are compared to various model calculations.