Nucleon Resonance Electrocouplings from the CLAS Data on Exclusive Meson Electroproduction off Protons

Abstract

$\gamma_{v}NN^*$ transition helicity amplitudes (electrocouplings) of several prominent excited proton states are determined for the first time in independent analyses of $\pi^+n$, $\pi^0p$, and $\pi^+\pi^-p$ electroproduction off protons. Analysis of $\pi^+\pi^-p$ electroproduction has extended considerably information on electrocouplings of high lying N* states, which decay preferentially to the $N\pi\pi$ final states.