Simultaneous photoproduction of eta and pi0 mesons on the proton

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Feb 8;100(5):052003. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.052003. Epub 2008 Feb 8.

Abstract

The analysis of the gammap-->etapi(0)p reaction has been performed using data from the GRAAL experiment. The total and differential cross sections and the beam asymmetry have been obtained from threshold up to 1.5 GeV of beam energy. The two resonances S11(1535) and Delta(1700) are expected to be excited in the intermediate states of this reaction. The results are used to test predictions based on the assumption that both resonances are dynamically generated from the meson-baryon interaction provided by chiral Lagrangians. The term involving the Delta(1700) excitation, followed by the decay into etaDelta(1232), is found to be dominant.