F. Sakuma

Experimental signature of medium modifications for rho and omega mesons in the 12 GeV p+A reactions.

The invariant mass spectra of e+e- pairs produced in 12 GeV proton-induced nuclear reactions are measured at the KEK Proton Synchrotron. On the low-mass side of the meson peak, a significant enhancement over the known hadronic sources has been observed. The mass spectra, including the excess, are well reproduced by a model that takes into account the density dependence of the vector meson mass modification, as theoretically predicted.

Evidence for in-medium modification of the phi meson at normal nuclear density.

Invariant mass spectra of e(+) e(-) pairs have been measured in 12 GeV p + A reactions to detect possible in-medium modification of vector mesons. Copper and carbon targets are used to study the nuclear-size dependence of e(+) e(-) invariant mass distributions. A significant excess on the low-mass side of the phi meson peak is observed in the low betagamma(= beta/square root(1-beta(2))) region of phi mesons (betagamma < 1.25) with copper targets. However, in the high betagamma region (betagamma > 1.25), spectral shapes of phi mesons are well described by the Breit-Wigner shape when experimental effects are considered. Thus, in addition to our earlier publications on rho/omega modification, this study has experimentally verified vector meson mass modification at normal nuclear density.

Observation of rho/omega meson modification in nuclear matter.

We measured the invariant mass spectra of electron-positron pairs in the target rapidity region of 12-GeV p+A reactions. We have observed a significant difference in the mass spectra below the omega meson between p+C and p+Cu interactions. This difference indicates that the spectral shape of mesons is modified at normal nuclear-matter density.

Search for the deeply bound K–pp state from the semi-inclusive forward-neutron spectrum in the in-flight K– reaction on helium-3

T. Hashimoto †1,*, S. Ajimura2, G. Beer3, H. Bhang4, M. Bragadireanu5, L. Busso7,8, M. Cargnelli6, S. Choi4, C. Curceanu9, S. Enomoto2, D. Faso7,8, H. Fujioka10, Y. Fujiwara1, T. Fukuda11, C. Guaraldo9, R. S. Hayano1, T. Hiraiwa2, M. Iio12, M. Iliescu9, K. Inoue13, Y. Ishiguro10, T. Ishikawa1, S. Ishimoto12, K. Itahashi14, M. Iwai12, M. Iwasaki14,15, Y. Kato14, S. Kawasaki13, P. Kienle‡16, H. Kou15, Y. Ma14, J. Marton6, Y. Matsuda17, Y. Mizoi11, O. Morra7, T. Nagae10, H. Noumi2, H. Ohnishi14,2, S. Okada14, H. Outa14, K. Piscicchia9, M. Poli Lener9, A. Romero Vidal9, Y. Sada10, A. Sakaguchi13, F. Sakuma14, M. Sato14, A. Scordo9, M. Sekimoto12, H. Shi9, D. Sirghi9,5, F. Sirghi9,5, S. Suzuki12, T. Suzuki1, K. Tanida4, H. Tatsuno1, M. Tokuda15, D. Tomono10, A. Toyoda12, K. Tsukada18, O. Vazquez Doce9,19, E. Widmann6, T. Yamaga13, T. Yamazaki1,14, H. Yim20, Q. Zhang14, and J. Zmeskal6

Nuclear-matter modification of decay widths in the phi-->e+e- and phi-->K+K- channels.

The invariant mass spectra of phi-->K+K- are measured in 12 GeV p+A reactions in order to search for the in-medium modification of phi mesons. The observed K+K- spectra are well reproduced by the relativistic Breit-Wigner function with a combinatorial background shape in three betagamma regions between 1.0 and 3.5. The nuclear mass number dependence of the yields of the K+K- decay channel is compared to the simultaneously measured e+e- decay channel for carbon and copper targets. We parameterize the production yields as sigma(A)=sigma0Aalpha and obtain alphaphi-->K+K- -alphaphi-->e+e- to be 0.14+/-0.12. Limits are obtained for the partial decay widths of the phi mesons in nuclear matter.

Experimental signature of in-medium mass modification of vector mesons at normal nuclear density

We measured invariant mass spectra of e+e− pairs produced in 12 GeV p + A interaction to investigate in-medium mass modification of vector mesons. We observed an enhancement over the known hadronic sources on the low-mass side of the ω meson mass peak. The obtained ρ/ω ratio indicates that this enhancement mainly results from ρ mesons whose mass was modified in nuclear matter. We performed a toy model calculation based on the prediction using the QCD sum rule. It reproduced well the tendency of our data.

Nuclear mass number dependence of inclusive production of {omega} and {phi} mesons in 12 GeV p+A collisions

The inclusive production of {omega} and {phi} mesons is studied in the backward region of the interaction of 12 GeV protons with polyethylene, carbon, and copper targets. The mesons are measured in e{sup +}e{sup -} decay channels. The production cross sections of the mesons are presented as functions of rapidity y and transverse momentum p{sub T}. The nuclear mass number dependences (A dependences) are found to be A{sup 0.710{+-}}{sup 0.021(stat){+-}}{sup 0.037(syst)} for {omega} mesons and A{sup 0.937{+-}}{sup 0.049(stat){+-}}{sup 0.018(syst)} for {phi} mesons in the region of 0.9

The K1.8BR spectrometer system at J-PARC

A new spectrometer system was designed and constructed at the secondary beam line K1.8BR in the hadron hall of J-PARC to investigate

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