Welcome to the group of
Prof. Dr. H. Schmieden

This group works in the field of experimental hadron physics. We focus on meson-photoproduction at the BGOOD experiment. Photons impinge on a target of either liquid deuterium or liquid hydrogen and the resulting excited states are invesitgated. We are especially interested in exotic structures beyond the classical understanding of the quark model.

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Our research focuses on the photoproduction of mesons at the BGOOD experiment at ELSA. Topical issues are search and investigation of unconventional baryon and meson states. Unconventional here means a quark configuration of more than 3 quarks in the case of baryons and more than a quark-antiquark pair in the case of mesons.

Strangeness Photoproduktion

We investigate different reactions involving strange quark photoproduction on nucleons, e.g. γN→KΣ or γN→KΛ, by measuring their cross sections and polarisation observables. When doing this we are interested in possible unconventional states beyond the conventional quark model, like pentaquark states or meson-baryon molecular like states.

Coherent Production on the Deuteron

Coherent production on the deuteron means, the photon does not scatter on the nucleons, but on the deuteron as a whole, which stays intact. This allows measurement of different cross sections on the deuteron but also the investigation of possible di-baryon states beyond the conventional quark model.