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VECTOR MESON MODIFICATION IN NUCLEAR MATTER AT CLAS

C. Djalali, Mike Wood, R. Nasseripour, Dennis Weygand, the CLAS Collaboration

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Photoproduction of vector mesons off nuclei were performed at Jefferson Lab using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS). The properties of the ρ vector mesons were investigated via their rare leptonic decay to e+e−. After subtracting the combinatorial background, the ρ meson mass distributions were extracted for each of the targets. We observe no effects on the mass of the ρ meson, some widening in titanium and iron is observed consistent with the collisional broadening.

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Photoproduction of vector mesons off nuclei were performed at Jefferson Lab using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS). The properties of the ρ vector mesons were investigated via their rare leptonic decay to e+e−. After subtracting the combinatorial background, the ρ meson mass distributions were extracted for each of the targets. We observe no effects on the mass of the ρ meson, some widening in titanium and iron is observed consistent with the collisional broadening.

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Photoproduction of vector mesons off nuclei were performed at Jefferson Lab using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS). The properties of the ρ vector mesons were investigated via their rare leptonic decay to e+e−. After subtracting the combinatorial background, the ρ meson mass distributions were extracted for each of the targets. We observe no effects on the mass of the ρ meson, some widening in titanium and iron is observed consistent with the collisional broadening.

Key concepts: Physics, Meson, Particle physics, Nuclear physics, Vector meson, Pseudovector, Spectrometer, Quantum mechanics

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