Delta Baryon Photoproduction with Twisted Photons
Andrei Afanasev, Carl E. Carlson
Abstract
Abstract A future gamma factory at CERN or accelerator‐based gamma sources elsewhere can include the possibility of energetic twisted photons, which are photons with a structured wave front that can allow a pre‐defined large angular momentum along the beam direction. Twisted photons are potentially a new tool in hadronic physics, and one possibility is considered here, namely the photoproduction of Δ(1232) baryons using twisted photons. It is shown that particular polarization amplitudes isolate the smaller partial wave amplitudes and they are measurable without interference from the terms that are otherwise dominant.
Topics & Concepts
PhysicsPhotonParticle physicsAmplitudeHadronLarge Hadron ColliderBaryonNuclear physicsPolarization (electrochemistry)Partial wave analysisPhoton polarizationBeam (structure)Angular momentumPair productionQuark modelParticle decayMomentum (technical analysis)BosonElementary particleInterference (communication)HyperonMassless particleQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesQuantum and Classical Electrodynamics