Scalar photoproduction on the proton at CLAS and GlueX energies

Abstract

In this work we present the results of a theoretical analysis of the data on photoproduction of $f_0(980)$ meson in the laboratory photon energy between $3.0$ GeV and $3.8$ GeV. A comparison is done to the measurements performed by the CLAS collaboration at JLab accelerator for the exclusive reaction $\gamma p\to p{f}_0(980)$. The differential and integrated total cross sections are also computed for the cases of the mesons $f_0(1500)$, and $f_0(1710)$, focusing on the GlueX energy regime with photon energy $E_{\gamma }=9$ GeV.

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Presented at the Workshop 'Excited QCD 2014'