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Electroproduction of $\pi^+$ above the resonance region is analyzed in the Regge model for $\pi+\rho$ exchanges. Importance of the roles of pion and proton form factors in the process is discussed in comparison with existing models of…
Based on the high precision experimental data released by the CLAS Collaboration recently, the interaction mechanism of the photoproduction of $\Lambda$(1520) off a proton target is investigated within a Regge-plus-resonance approach. With…
We investigate photoproduction of $\omega$ off a nucleon target $\gamma N\to\omega N$ by using a Reggeized model where $\pi(135)+\sigma(500)+f_1(1285)+f_2(1270)$+Pomeron exchanges are included in the $t$-channel for the reaction at forward…
In this paper, we present our study on the $\eta$ photoproduction based on the chiral quark model. We find that quark model provides a very good description of the $\eta$ production with much less parameters, and the threshold region is not…
We analyse $K^- p \to (\eta, \eta',\pi^0) \Lambda$ on the basis of the fit of data in a wide region of energies, and $\pi^- p \to (\eta, \eta') n$ at the energies of GAMS-4$\pi$. We show that disagreements between the data and the…
We investigate photoproduction of eta mesons off protons and neutrons within a coupled-channels effective-Lagrangian method which is based on the K-matrix approach. The two-body final channels included are pi-N, eta-N, phi-N, rho-N,…
The $\eta$ production in the nucleon resonance energy region is studied within the unitary coupled-channels effective Lagrangian approach of the Giessen model. We demonstrate that the second peak recently observed in the cross section of…
The presently available data for the reaction ${\gamma}p{\to}\eta^\prime{p}$ are analyzed in terms of a model in which the dominant production mechanism is the exchange of the vector mesons $\omega$ and $\rho$. To describe the data at…
A value for the $\eta$-$\eta^\prime$ mixing angle is extracted from the data on $VP\gamma$ transitions using simple quark-model ideas. The set of data covers {\it all} possible radiative transitions between the pseudoscalar and vector meson…
We analyze the $\gamma p \to \eta p$ process from threshold up to 1.2 GeV, employing an effective Lagrangian approach that allows for a mixing of eta couplings of pseudoscalar and pseudovector nature. The mixing ratio of the couplings may…
A Regge model with absorptive corrections is employed in a global analysis of the world data on positive and negative pion photoproduction for photon energies from 3 to 8 GeV. In this region resonance contributions are expected to be…
Measurements of the analysing power for the p(pol)p --> ppeta reaction have been performed in the close-to-threshold energy region at beam momenta of p_{beam}=2.010 and 2.085 GeV/c, corresponding to excess energies of Q=10 and 36 MeV,…
We present a new version of the EtaMAID model for $\eta$ and $\eta'$ photoproduction on nucleons. The model includes 23 nucleon resonances parameterized with Breit-Wigner shapes. The background is described by vector and axial-vector meson…
Backward photoproduction of $\omega$ off a proton target is investigated in a Reggeized model where the $u$-channel nucleon Reggeon is constructed from the nucleon Born terms in a gauge invariant way. The $t$-channel meson exchanges are…
The $\eta \pi^{-}$ system has been studied in the reaction $\pi^{-} p \to \eta \pi^{-} p$ at 18 GeV/c. A large asymmetry in the angular distribution is observed indicating interference between L-even and L-odd partial waves. The…
We present measurements of exclusive \pi^{+,0} and \eta\ production in pp reactions at 1.25 GeV and 2.2 GeV beam kinetic energy in hadron and dielectron channels. In the case of \pi^+ and \pi^0, high-statistics invariant-mass and angular…
We present an effective-Lagrangian description for forward-angle K+ Lambda photoproduction from the proton, valid for photon lab energies from threshold up to 16 GeV. The high-energy part of the amplitude is modeled in terms of t-channel…
Using a chiral constituent quark approach based on the broken SU(6) \otimes O(3) symmetry, we focus on the spectroscopy of isospin-1/2 nucleonic resonances. A model for the eta photoproduction, embodying all known nucleonic resonances,…
We present a systematic analysis of backward pion photoproduction for the reactions gamma p -> pi0 p and gamma p -> pi+ n. Regge phenomenology is applied at invariant collision energies above 3 GeV in order to fix the reaction amplitude. A…
We present results of a recent work on the reaction mechanism of $\eta n$ photoproduction off the neutron in the range of $ \sqrt{s} \approx 1.5 - 1.9$ GeV and discuss the role of various nucleon resonances listed in the Particle Data Group…