Mining for $\omega$ and $\rm{f_{1}}$ decays in CLAS Data

POSTER

Abstract

One advantage of the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) is its ability to reconstruct multi-particle decays. For this reason, we are mining the E02-104 data set for the exclusive decays of the $\omega$ and $\rm{f_{1}}$ mesons. Each meson has either three or four particles in the final state. Our goal is to determine the reaction rates with CLAS and extrapolate to those for the E12-06-117 experiment, that will run when the CLAS12 detector is built for the TJNAF 12-GeV upgrade. The focus of the latter experiment is to understand the hadronization process from free quarks to color-neutral hadrons. This poster will describe our work using the data mining software developed by the group at Old Dominion University under a grant from the Department of Energy.

Authors

  • Andrew Beiter

    Canisius College

  • Michael Wood

    Canisius College