THE BGO-OD EXPERIMENT AT ELSA

• DOI: 10.1142/s2010194514600933
• Publication Date: 2014-01-13T20:57:14Z
• Authors: B. BANTES; D. BAYADILOV; R. BECK; M. BECKER; A. BELLA; J. BIELING; S. BÖSE; A. BRAGLIERI; K. BRINKMANN; D. BURDEYNYI; F. CURCIARELLO; V. DE LEO; R. DI SALVO; H. DUTZ; D. ELSNER; A. FANTINI; T. FRESE; S. FRIEDRICK; F. FROMMBERGER; V. GANENKO; G. GERVINO; F. GHIO; G. GIARDINA; B. GIROLAMI; D. GLAZIER; S. GOERTZ; A. GRIDNEV; E. GUTZ; D. HAMMANN; J. HANNAPPEL; W. HILLERT; A. IGNATOV; O. JAHN; R. JAHN; R. JOOSTEN; T. C. JUDE; F. KLEIN; K. KOOP; B. KRUSCHE; A. LAPIK; P. LEVI SANDRI; I. LOPATIN; G. MANDAGLIO; F. MESSI; R. MESSI; V. METAG; D. MORICCIANI; M. NANOVA; V. NEDOREZOV; D. NOVISKIY; P. PEDRONI; M. ROMANIUK; T. ROSTOMYAN; C. SCHAERF; H. SCHMIEDEN; V. SUMACHEV; V. TARAKONOV; V. VEGNA; P. VLASOV; D. WALTHER; D. WATTS; H.-G. ZAUNICK; T. ZIMMERMANN
• Keywords: Instrumentation; Vector meson

Meson photoproduction is a key tool for the experimental investigation of nucleon excitation spectrum. To disentangle specific couplings resonances, in addition to rather well measured pion and eta channels it mandatory obtain information on involving strange vector mesons higher mass pseudoscalar mesons, associated multi-particle final states with both charged neutral particles. In this respect, new BGO-OD experiment at ELSA accelerator University Bonn's Physikalisches Institut provides unique instrumentation. We describe experiment, present its status initial program measurements.