Experimental Study of the P11(1440) and D13(1520) resonances from the CLAS data on ep→e′π+π−p′статья
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Аннотация:The transition helicity amplitudes from the proton ground state to the P11(1440) and D13(1520) excited states (γvpN∗ electrocouplings) were determined from the analysis of nine independent one-fold differential π+π−p electroproduction cross sections off a proton target, taken with CLAS at photon virtualities 0.25\enskip {\rm GeV2} < Q2 < 0.60 \enskip {\rm GeV2}. The phenomenological reaction model was employed for separation of the resonant and non-resonant contributions to the final state. The P11(1440) and D13(1520) electrocouplings were obtained from the resonant amplitudes parametrized within the framework of a unitarized Breit-Wigner ansatz. They are consistent with results obtained in the previous CLAS analyses of the π+n and π0p channels. The successful description of a large body of data in dominant meson-electroproduction channels off protons with the same γvpN∗ electrocouplings offers clear evidence for the reliable extraction of these fundamental quantities from meson-electroproduction data. This analysis also led to the determination of the long-awaited hadronic branching ratios for the D13(1520) decay into Δπ (24%-32%) and Nρ (8%-17%).