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1 and ' Time-like Transition Form Factors from MAMI Institute for Nuclear Physics University Mainz

2 Outline Experimental Setup Short Review of Time-like Transition Form Factors Time-like Transition Form Factor from e+e- Time-like Transition Form Factor from ' e+e- Future Plans for Transition Form Factors at MAMI Summary

3 Outline Experimental Setup Short Review of Time-like Transition Form Factors Time-like Transition Form Factor from e+e- Time-like Transition Form Factor from ' e+e- Future Plans for Transition Form Factors at MAMI Summary

4 Experiments at MAMI MESA A2: Real Photon Experiments: - Glasgow tagging spectrometer - Crystal Ball / TAPS hermetic photon spectrometer - Meson Factory PRISMA/SFB 1044: - Dark Photon Search - El.-weak Mixing Angle A1: Electron Scattering: - focusing magnetic spectrometers - neutron detection, spin precession - Kaon spectrometer (KAOS/A1)

5 Real Photons in A2 E =E0-EeHigh energy resolution: End-point Tagger used for Ee-=1604 MeV E 2MeV at Ee-=883 MeV E 4MeV at Ee-=1558 MeV E 2.5MeV for EPT at Ee-=1604 MeV

6 Meson Production with Real Photons Data from CLAS, SAPHIR Current production rates on lh2 target feasible for taking data: : 105 h-1 Goal 106 h-1 ': h-1 Goal h-1 Has to be imposed by detection and anlysis efficiencies 4 Crystal Ball/TAPS setup, e.m. production mechanism very clean Ideally suited to measure high rates of meson decays

7 Outline Experimental Setup Short Review of Time-like Transition Form Factors Time-like Transition Form Factor from e+e- Time-like Transition Form Factor from ' e+e- Future Plans for Transition Form Factors at MAMI Summary

8 Transition Form Factor with VMD Mechanism especially pronounced in timelike region at q2 mv2 Virtual meson reaches mass shell, becomes real Strong resonance enhancement around vector meson mass TFF behaviour, especially for ', not well known TFF modifies differential decay width For often one-pole approximation used: Exp: VMD: For ' resonance shape:

9 Hadronic LbL Contribution to a =(g-2) QED contributions: = external B-field T. Kinoshita et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) Electro-Weak contribution:,, ' * TFF A. Czarnecki et al., Phys. Rev. D 67 (2003) Erratum-ibid. D 73 (2006) M. Knecht et al., JHEP 0211 (2002) 003. TFF * + Hadronic vacuum polarisation: * + M. Davier et al., Eur. Phys. J. C 71 (2011) Hadronic light-by-light: Transition Form Factors of light pseudoscalar mesons could give important input for SM calculations of (g-2) J. Prades et al., arxiv: (2009).

10 Time-like TFF at MAMI q2 = ( E/c)2 - p2=ml2 momentum transfer carried by virtual photon Time-like momentum transfer (meson decays): (2m )2 < q2 < M2 l Crystal Ball, WASA, KLOE, Crystal Barrel, BESIII, CLAS Also + - decays possible: NA60

11 Outline Experimental Setup Short Review of Time-like Transition Form Factors Time-like Transition Form Factor from e+e- Time-like Transition Form Factor from ' e+e- Future Plans for Transition Form Factors at MAMI Summary

12 First A2 Analysis for TFF H. Berghäuser et al. (A2-Collaboration), Phys. Rev. B 701 (2011) Using e+e- Based on kinematic cuts Small amount of data Limited photoproduction energy range

13 First A2 Result for TFF H. Berghäuser et al. (A2-Collaboration), Phys. Rev. B 701 (2011) CB/TAPS MAMI-C: 1350 e+e- events NA60: events SND: 109 e+e- events -2 = (1.92±0.35stat±0.13syst) GeV-2 NA60, In-In: R. Arnaldi et al., Phys. Lett. B 677 (2009) 260. SND: M.N. Achasov et al., Phys. Lett. B 504 (2001) 275. Terschluesen Leupold: C. Terschlüsen, Diploma thesis, University Gießen, Germany, 2010.

14 New Analysis of TFF Based on kinematic fitting 3x more data Full photoproduction range accessible at MAMI used 18,000 events (no proton requirement: 22,000 events), most precise e+e- up to now m(e+e-)=45±5 MeV Preliminary m(e+e-)=285±5 MeV Preliminary Solid line: Pole-approximation fit Normalisation p0 and -2=p1 as free parameters all events 4 clusters only Preliminary

15 New A2 Result for TFF S. Prakhov, M. Unverzagt et al., submitted to Phys. Rev. C, arxiv: [hep-ex] Preliminary Preliminary A2, 2011: H. Berghäuser et al., Phys. Rev. B 701 (2011) NA60, In-In: R. Arnaldi et al., Phys. Lett. B 677 (2009) 260. TL calculation: C. Terschlüsen, Diploma thesis, University Gießen, Padé-approximants: R. Escribano, P. Masjuan, P. Sanchez-Puertas, arxiv: [hep-ph]. DT calculation: C. Hahnhart, A. Kupść, U.-G. Meißner, F. Stollenwerk, A. Wirzba, arxiv: [hep-ph].

16 Outline Experimental Setup Short Review of Time-like Transition Form Factors Time-like Transition Form Factor from e+e- Time-like Transition Form Factor from ' e+e- Future Plans for Transition Form Factors at MAMI Summary

17 ' 0 0 Invariant Mass y in ar y lim in ar in im Pr e Pr el y y E =1570±10 MeV Pr el im in ar ar in lim E =1530±10 MeV y y E =1510±10 MeV ar in lim Pr e E =1550±10 MeV Pr e lim Pr e Pr el im in ar ar in lim Pr e E =1490±10 MeV E =1470±10 MeV ar y E =1450±10 MeV y E =1430±10 MeV S. Prakhov (UCLA) P. Ott (Mainz)

18 Rate Estimation S. Wagner, Master thesis, University Mainz, 2013 M. Unverzagt, A. Denig ' e+e- no observation published yet worldwide 5.5 weeks of ' photoproduction in Analysis of ' 0 0 Total 1.5 million ' produced Simulation based on - PDG upper limit for branching ratio - 20 background channels simulated - Kinematic cuts (try kinematic fit?) - Most critical backgrounds: 0 0, 0 - Acceptance ~8.5% (preliminary) Expected: ~80 ' e+e- events from 2012 data

19 Time-like TFF for ' S. Wagner, Master thesis, University Mainz, 2013 M. Unverzagt, A. Denig ~80 events expected from 2012 New Goal: ~800 ' e+e- events in fall 2014 measurement Only possible if acceptance holds, has to be improved (use kinematic fit?) Next: analyse old data (S. Prakhov, S. Wagner)

20 Outline Experimental Setup Short Review of Time-like Transition Form Factors Time-like Transition Form Factor from e+e- Time-like Transition Form Factor from ' e+e- Future Plans for Transition Form Factors at MAMI Summary

21 TFF Programme at A2 Precise results in / ' physics: Cross sections, especially precise in threshold region 3 0 (Dalitz plot parameter ), e+e- (TFF), 0 ( PT, VMD) First glances at ' 0 0, ' e+e- Also preliminary look at 0 e+e- N.P. Samios et al. (BNL), Phys. Rev. 121 (1961) H. Berghäuser, PhD Thesis, University Gießen, Germany, A. Denig, M. Unverzagt, S. Wagner (University Mainz), S. Prakhov, (UCLA)

22 TFF Programme at A2 Precise results in / ' physics: Cross sections, especially precise in threshold region 3 0 (Dalitz plot parameter ), e+e- (TFF), 0 ( PT, VMD) First glances at ' 0 0, ' e+e- Next ' production: Summer/fall 2014 Measure with x4 DAQ speed and longer period Goal: 400,000 ' 0 0 (Dalitz plot analysis) ~800 ' e+e- (Transition Form Factor) A. Denig, M. Unverzagt, S. Wagner (University Mainz), S. Prakhov, (UCLA)

23 TFF Programme at A2 Precise results in / ' physics: Cross sections, especially precise in threshold region 3 0 (Dalitz plot parameter ), e+e- (TFF), 0 ( PT, VMD) First glances at ' 0 0, ' e+e- Next ' production: Summer/fall 2014 Measure with x4 DAQ speed and longer period Goal: 400,000 ' 0 0 (Dalitz plot analysis) ~800 ' e+e- (Transition Form Factor) H. Berghäuser, PhD Thesis, University, Gießen, Germany, Future goals: Improve Transition Form Factors for / ' Double Dalitz decays for / ' Transition Form Factors for 0e+e-? A. Denig, M. Unverzagt, S. Wagner (University Mainz), S. Prakhov, (UCLA)

24 Outline Experimental Setup Short Review of Time-like Transition Form Factors Time-like Transition Form Factor from e+e- Time-like Transition Form Factor from ' e+e- Future Plans for Transition Form Factors at MAMI Summary

25 Summary ' production at MAMI possible now - Preliminary results on ' photoproduction cross section especially in the threshold region - First glance on ' 0 0 Dalitz plot New determination of the Transition Form Factor in e+e- - More than one order of magnitude more events than previous A2 analysis - Based on 18,000 events - Submitted to Phys. Rev. C Full experiment simulation for ' e+e- Transition Form Factor - Includes all background channels - ~80 events expected from 2012 ' measurement - Goal: ~800 ' e+e- events 12 years physics programme funded through DFG (SFB 1044) - Broad physics programme including Light Meson Dynamics Transition Form Factors of pseudoscalar Mesons

26 A2 Experiments Mesons Baryons Meson decays with all including physical aspects Polarisabilities of nucleons and pions Properties of the first nucleon excitations p S11 ' Photoproduction p (E 1604 MeV)

27 Mainz Microtron Ee-<1604 MeV E<0.1 MeV MESA High current (110 A) High polarisation (85%) Duty factor 100% ~7000 h/year running experiments

28 Mainz Microtron (MAMI-B) Experiments/HDSM 180MeV 15MeV 855/883Me V 3.5MeV Acceleration via em wave (2.45GHz) cw: bunch structure ~0.4ns Injektion LINAC 3 cascaded Race-Track-Microtrons Magnet of RTM 3 ~450t per Magnet, 1.28T

29 HDSM (MAMI-C) From MAMI-B To Experiments 2007: 1508MeV 2008: 1558MeV 2009: 1604MeV Bmax=1.539T Harmonic Doubled Sided Microtron (HDSM) K. H. Kaiser et al., NIM A 593, 159 (2008).

30 End-Point-Tagger Installation of EPT during 2012 EPT Same working principle as main tagging spectrometer E MeV E 2.5MeV Non-permanent installation infront of main Tagger

31 4 -Setup Crystal Ball: 672 NaI(Tl) crystals 93,3% of total solid angle Each crystal equipped with PMT 2% = E E / GeV 0.25 t = 2.5 ns FWHM =2 3 = 2 3 sin TAPS: Up to 510 BaF2 crystals Polar acceptance: 2-20 t = 0.5 ns FWHM 0,79 % = 1,8 % E E /GeV

32 CB PID - between CB and PID Particle Identificaton Detector (PID): Cylindrical Detector inside CB 24 scintillator strips PMT readout Charged Particles Energy Dependence Protons ±, e±

33 TAPS PI Time-of-Flight Pulse-Shape-Analysis R= E2short E2long slow=620ns fast=0.7ns short gate =arctan Eshort E long long gate

34 Setup Performance Two main decay modes: BR( 3 0)=32.51% BR( 2 )=39.38% p 6 p p 2 p : =16.1 MeV : =21.6 MeV : =19.0 MeV 0: =10.0 MeV analysed from ~6 weeks 30M produced

35 -Photoproduction At MAMI a beam of tagged photons of excellent quality is available: High intensity photon beam Fine energy resolution Outstanding stability Beam energy nearly perfect for high statistics photoproduction

36 Production E.F. McNicoll et al., Phys. Rev. C 82 (2010) Data from Crystal Ball, Crystal Barrel, SAPHIR, CLAS

37 ' Cross Section Using ' 0 0 E =1450±10 MeV E =1470±10 MeV E =1490±10 MeV E =1510±10 MeV Preliminary Preliminary Preliminary Preliminary E =1570±10 MeV Preliminary Preliminary Preliminary in ar y E =1550±10 MeV Pr el im E =1530±10 MeV tot S. Prakhov (UCLA) P. Ott (Mainz)