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Establishment of a modern experimental technique of a $$Sigma p$$ scattering experiment at J-PARC

Akazawa, Yuya*; Fujita, Manami; Hasegawa, Shoichi   ; Hosomi, Kenji  ; Ichikawa, Masaya; Ichikawa, Yudai   ; Imai, Kenichi*; Nanamura, Takuya; Naruki, Megumi; Sako, Hiroyuki   ; Sato, Susumu  ; Tamura, Hirokazu; Tanida, Kiyoshi   ; Yamamoto, Takeshi  ; 55 of others*

We are performing a scattering experiment between a $$Sigma$$ hyperon and a proton (J-PARC E40) at the K1.8 beamline in the J-PARC Hadron Hall. The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the $$Sigma N$$ interaction by measuring the differential cross sections of the $$Sigma^+ p$$, $$Sigma^- p$$ elastic scatterings and $$Sigma^- p to Lambda n$$ inelastic scattering. The experimental data gives a strong constraint on the theoretical models of the $$Sigma N$$ interaction. The identification of $$Sigma p$$ scattering event with a high statistics is important by overcoming the difficulties in the hyperon proton scattering experiment. We have introduced a new identification method of the $$Sigma p$$ scattering event, which does not need to detect $$Sigma$$ particles directly. We used a new detector system called CATCH and two spectrometer systems installed at the upstream and the downstream of a liquid hydrogen target. A high intensity $$pi$$ beam of 20 M/spill was used to produce $$Sigma$$ particle. The momenta of $$pi$$ beam and scattered $$K^+$$ were measured by the spectrometers to reconstruct the momentum of a $$Sigma$$ beam produced via the $$pi p to Sigma K^+$$ reactions. The scattering angle and the kinetic energy of recoil protons from the $$Sigma p$$ scattering were measured by CATCH for the identification of the $$Sigma p$$ scattering events by checking the kinematic consistency. A part of the experiment was performed in 2018 and 2019 in J-PARC. As a result of analyzing the collected data, the $$Sigma^-$$ production and the $$Sigma^- p$$ scattering reaction have been identified. It means that our new measurement and analysis method are successfully working well. Analysis for deriving the differential cross section of the $$Sigma p$$ scattering is on going.

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