Photoproduction of φ mesons from protons and deuterons with linearly polarized photons at LEPS/SPring-8 experiment

摘要

Diffractive photoproduction of φ mesons near threshold involves Pomeron exchange, pseudoscalar exchanges and possible exotic components such as glueball and scalar-meson exchange. We measured φ-meson photoproduction from protons and deuterons at forward angles by using linearly polarized photons with E γ = 1.5–2.4 GeV. The decay asymmetries show dominance of the natural-parity exchange process. The energy dependence of cross sections will help in determining the behavior of the Pomeron exchange near threshold.